Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

Robert Irwin in Marfa

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

Giant Steps

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

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

“Trapped” in the Limelight

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

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

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

The Clothes that Make the Man

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

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

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

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

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

Unveiling “Austin”

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

Lives in Limbo

The Last Book Sale

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

What Will Become of the Library?

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

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

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

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

The Catastrophe Guru

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

No Gogh!

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

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

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

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

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

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

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

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

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

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

The Image in the 21st Century

Welcome to Texas, Elon

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

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

Wall Flowers

Dario Robleto artist profile

The Great Mellowing

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

The Wonderful World of Bluth