Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

Robert Irwin in Marfa

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

The Clothes that Make the Man

The Wonderful World of Bluth

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

“Trapped” in the Limelight

The Image in the 21st Century

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

Welcome to Texas, Elon

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

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

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

The Last Book Sale

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

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

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

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

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Unveiling “Austin”

The Great Mellowing

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

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

Dario Robleto artist profile

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

Lives in Limbo

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Giant Steps

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

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

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

The Catastrophe Guru

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

Wall Flowers

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

No Gogh!

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

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

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

What Will Become of the Library?

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books