Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

The Image in the 21st Century

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

The Clothes that Make the Man

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

The Last Book Sale

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

Unveiling “Austin”

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

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

The Wonderful World of Bluth

Wall Flowers

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

No Gogh!

Robert Irwin in Marfa

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

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

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

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

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

The Catastrophe Guru

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

Welcome to Texas, Elon

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

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

Dario Robleto artist profile

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

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

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

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

What Will Become of the Library?

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

“Trapped” in the Limelight

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

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

Lives in Limbo

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

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

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

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

The Great Mellowing

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

Giant Steps

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor