Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

Dario Robleto artist profile

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

Welcome to Texas, Elon

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

The Great Mellowing

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

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

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

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

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Wall Flowers

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

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

“Trapped” in the Limelight

The Wonderful World of Bluth

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

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

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

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

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

The Image in the 21st Century

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

Giant Steps

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

Lives in Limbo

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

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

The Last Book Sale

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

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

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

The Clothes that Make the Man

The Catastrophe Guru

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

Unveiling “Austin”

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

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

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

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

Robert Irwin in Marfa

What Will Become of the Library?

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

No Gogh!