Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

“Trapped” in the Limelight

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

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

Wall Flowers

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

No Gogh!

Lives in Limbo

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

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

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Welcome to Texas, Elon

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

The Catastrophe Guru

The Clothes that Make the Man

The Great Mellowing

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

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

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

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

The Image in the 21st Century

Giant Steps

Dario Robleto artist profile

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

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

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

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

The Wonderful World of Bluth

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

The Last Book Sale

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

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

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

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

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

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

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

Unveiling “Austin”

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

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

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

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

Robert Irwin in Marfa

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

What Will Become of the Library?