Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

Welcome to Texas, Elon

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

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

Unveiling “Austin”

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

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

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

Lives in Limbo

“Trapped” in the Limelight

The Great Mellowing

What Will Become of the Library?

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

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

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

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

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

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

Giant Steps

Dario Robleto artist profile

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

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

Wall Flowers

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

No Gogh!

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Robert Irwin in Marfa

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

The Wonderful World of Bluth

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

The Image in the 21st Century

The Clothes that Make the Man

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

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

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

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

The Last Book Sale

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

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

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

Film Reviews and Local Arts Coverage

Austin Chronicle

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

The Catastrophe Guru