Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

The Wonderful World of Bluth

No Gogh!

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

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

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

Dario Robleto artist profile

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

The Catastrophe Guru

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

The Clothes that Make the Man

The Great Mellowing

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

What Will Become of the Library?

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

Robert Irwin in Marfa

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

The Image in the 21st Century

The Last Book Sale

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

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

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

“Trapped” in the Limelight

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

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

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

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

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

Unveiling “Austin”

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

Lives in Limbo

Giant Steps

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

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

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

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

Wall Flowers

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

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

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

Welcome to Texas, Elon

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books