Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

The Great Mellowing

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

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

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

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

The Last Book Sale

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

The Wonderful World of Bluth

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

The Image in the 21st Century

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

Unveiling “Austin”

Welcome to Texas, Elon

The Catastrophe Guru

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

The Clothes that Make the Man

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

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

Lives in Limbo

Giant Steps

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

Robert Irwin in Marfa

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

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

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

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

Wall Flowers

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

No Gogh!

What Will Become of the Library?

“Trapped” in the Limelight

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

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

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

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

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

Dario Robleto artist profile

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

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

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

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

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

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

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

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters