Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

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

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

The Last Book Sale

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

Wall Flowers

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

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

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

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

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

Unveiling “Austin”

The Clothes that Make the Man

The Image in the 21st Century

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

The Wonderful World of Bluth

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

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

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

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

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

No Gogh!

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

The Catastrophe Guru

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

What Will Become of the Library?

The Great Mellowing

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

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

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

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

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

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

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

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

Robert Irwin in Marfa

Dario Robleto artist profile

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

“Trapped” in the Limelight

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

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

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

Welcome to Texas, Elon

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

Giant Steps

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

Lives in Limbo

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation