Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

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

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

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

Welcome to Texas, Elon

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

Lives in Limbo

The Clothes that Make the Man

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

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

“Trapped” in the Limelight

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

The Image in the 21st Century

Wall Flowers

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

Dario Robleto artist profile

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

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

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

Unveiling “Austin”

No Gogh!

The Last Book Sale

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

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

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

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

The Wonderful World of Bluth

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

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

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

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

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

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

Giant Steps

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

What Will Become of the Library?

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

Robert Irwin in Marfa

The Great Mellowing

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

The Catastrophe Guru

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

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