Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

Wall Flowers

What Will Become of the Library?

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

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

The Last Book Sale

Giant Steps

Lives in Limbo

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

“Trapped” in the Limelight

No Gogh!

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

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

The Clothes that Make the Man

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

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

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

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

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

Unveiling “Austin”

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

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

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

The Catastrophe Guru

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

Welcome to Texas, Elon

The Wonderful World of Bluth

Dario Robleto artist profile

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

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

The Great Mellowing

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

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

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

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

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

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

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

Robert Irwin in Marfa

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

The Image in the 21st Century

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu