Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

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

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

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

Unveiling “Austin”

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

No Gogh!

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

The Great Mellowing

The Clothes that Make the Man

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

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

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

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

The Catastrophe Guru

The Image in the 21st Century

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

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

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

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

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

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

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

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

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

Robert Irwin in Marfa

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

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

Wall Flowers

Lives in Limbo

“Trapped” in the Limelight

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

The Last Book Sale

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

The Wonderful World of Bluth

Welcome to Texas, Elon

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

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

Giant Steps

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Dario Robleto artist profile

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

What Will Become of the Library?

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

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