Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

The Image in the 21st Century

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

The Clothes that Make the Man

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

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

No Gogh!

Unveiling “Austin”

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

“Trapped” in the Limelight

The Catastrophe Guru

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

What Will Become of the Library?

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

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

Lives in Limbo

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

Dario Robleto artist profile

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

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

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

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

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

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

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

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

The Wonderful World of Bluth

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

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

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

Giant Steps

Wall Flowers

Welcome to Texas, Elon

The Great Mellowing

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

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

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Robert Irwin in Marfa

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

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

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

The Last Book Sale

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

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