Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

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

The Wonderful World of Bluth

Robert Irwin in Marfa

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

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

Giant Steps

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

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

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

“Trapped” in the Limelight

Unveiling “Austin”

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

The Last Book Sale

Dario Robleto artist profile

The Image in the 21st Century

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

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

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

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

No Gogh!

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

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

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

The Clothes that Make the Man

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Lives in Limbo

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

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

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

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

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

The Great Mellowing

Welcome to Texas, Elon

The Catastrophe Guru

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

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

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

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Wall Flowers

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

What Will Become of the Library?