Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

Did Texas Blackouts Reveal Austin’s New Real-Estate Hot Spots?

While We Were Sleeping: The Feds Say a Price-fixing Scheme Costs Texas Patients Tens of Millions

Luz Maria Sanchez: Narco Violence, as Seen by a Journalist-Turned-Artist

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

Unveiling “Austin”

Houston Photo Exhibit Documents First Markers of Modern U.S.-Mexico Border

Dario Robleto artist profile

What Will Become of the Library?

Robert Irwin in Marfa

The People’s Champion (Vincent Valdez’s ‘Dream Baby Dream’)

The Last Book Sale

The Psychedelic State of South Texas (Fernando A. Flores)

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

“Trapped” in the Limelight

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

EAST Austin Is Over. What’s Next for an Art Scene That’s Losing Its Nucleus?

No Gogh!

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Has a San Antonio Inventor Solved a Problem of Small-scale Wind Power?

The Wonderful World of Bluth

Lives in Limbo

Giant Steps

The Catastrophe Guru

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

Welcome to Texas, Elon

No Sign of Trump’s “Millions” of Illegal Voters in Texas

The Great Mellowing

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

The ‘Moby Dick’ of Texas Football Novels Is Hard-hitting as Ever

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

The Clothes that Make the Man

The Image in the 21st Century

Sedrick Huckaby Looks His Subjects in the Eye, from Dreamers to an Ex-President

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

Houston’s National Women’s Conference, 40 Years Later

Brutally Suppressed in Her Lifetime, Gertrude Beasley Is Finally on Our Bookshelves

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

Wall Flowers

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)