Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

Unveiling “Austin”

What Will Become of the Library?

The Image in the 21st Century

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

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

The Great Mellowing

The Catastrophe Guru

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

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

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

No Gogh!

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

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

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

The Wonderful World of Bluth

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

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

Lives in Limbo

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

Robert Irwin in Marfa

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

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

Welcome to Texas, Elon

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

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

The Clothes that Make the Man

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

Giant Steps

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

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

“Trapped” in the Limelight

The Last Book Sale

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

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

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

Wall Flowers

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

Dario Robleto artist profile

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

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

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

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

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

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

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard