Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

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

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

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

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

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Lives in Limbo

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

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

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

Unveiling “Austin”

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

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?

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

Dario Robleto artist profile

What Will Become of the Library?

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

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

The Catastrophe Guru

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

The Last Book Sale

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

The Great Mellowing

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

Robert Irwin in Marfa

“Trapped” in the Limelight

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

The Wonderful World of Bluth

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

Giant Steps

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

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

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

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

The Image in the 21st Century

The Clothes that Make the Man

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

Wall Flowers

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

No Gogh!

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

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

Welcome to Texas, Elon

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

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

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son