Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

Unveiling “Austin”

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

The Catastrophe Guru

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

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

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

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

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

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

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

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

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

Wall Flowers

The Great Mellowing

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

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

What Will Become of the Library?

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

The Clothes that Make the Man

Giant Steps

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

“Trapped” in the Limelight

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

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

The Wonderful World of Bluth

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

No Gogh!

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

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

Welcome to Texas, Elon

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

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Lives in Limbo

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

Dario Robleto artist profile

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

The Last Book Sale

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

Robert Irwin in Marfa

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

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

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

The Image in the 21st Century

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters