Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

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

Dario Robleto artist profile

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

Wall Flowers

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

The Clothes that Make the Man

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

Unveiling “Austin”

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

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

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

Lives in Limbo

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

The Image in the 21st Century

What Will Become of the Library?

The Catastrophe Guru

The Wonderful World of Bluth

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

Welcome to Texas, Elon

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

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

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Giant Steps

The Last Book Sale

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

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

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

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

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

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

Robert Irwin in Marfa

“Trapped” in the Limelight

The Great Mellowing

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

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

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

No Gogh!

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

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

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

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

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

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