Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

The Clothes that Make the Man

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

Unveiling “Austin”

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

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

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

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

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

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

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

The Catastrophe Guru

Robert Irwin in Marfa

Dario Robleto artist profile

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

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

Wall Flowers

The Great Mellowing

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

Giant Steps

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

No Gogh!

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

“Trapped” in the Limelight

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

Lives in Limbo

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

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

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

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

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

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

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

Welcome to Texas, Elon

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

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

The Wonderful World of Bluth

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

What Will Become of the Library?

The Image in the 21st Century

The Last Book Sale

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

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

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge