Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

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

Lives in Limbo

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

No Gogh!

What Will Become of the Library?

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

“Trapped” in the Limelight

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

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

Robert Irwin in Marfa

Giant Steps

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

The Catastrophe Guru

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

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

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

The Great Mellowing

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

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

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

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

The Clothes that Make the Man

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

The Wonderful World of Bluth

Welcome to Texas, Elon

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

Unveiling “Austin”

Dario Robleto artist profile

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

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

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

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

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

The Image in the 21st Century

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

Wall Flowers

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

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

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

The Last Book Sale

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