Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

Giant Steps

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

The Catastrophe Guru

The Last Book Sale

“Trapped” in the Limelight

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

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

No Gogh!

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

The Clothes that Make the Man

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

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

The Image in the 21st Century

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

Unveiling “Austin”

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

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

What Will Become of the Library?

Dario Robleto artist profile

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

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

The Wonderful World of Bluth

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

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

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

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

Wall Flowers

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

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

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

The Great Mellowing

Lives in Limbo

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

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

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

Welcome to Texas, Elon

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

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

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

Robert Irwin in Marfa

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

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