Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

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

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

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

The Clothes that Make the Man

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

The Last Book Sale

Lives in Limbo

Giant Steps

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

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

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

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

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

The Great Mellowing

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

Dario Robleto artist profile

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

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

No Gogh!

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

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

The Catastrophe Guru

Welcome to Texas, Elon

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

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

The Wonderful World of Bluth

“Trapped” in the Limelight

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

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

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

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

Unveiling “Austin”

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

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

Robert Irwin in Marfa

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

Wall Flowers

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

What Will Become of the Library?

The Image in the 21st Century