Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

Welcome to Texas, Elon

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

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

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

Giant Steps

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

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

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

The Last Book Sale

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

The Great Mellowing

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

Dario Robleto artist profile

Robert Irwin in Marfa

The Image in the 21st Century

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

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

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

No Gogh!

The Clothes that Make the Man

“Trapped” in the Limelight

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

Wall Flowers

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

Unveiling “Austin”

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

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

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

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

What Will Become of the Library?

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

The Wonderful World of Bluth

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

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

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

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

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

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

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

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

The Catastrophe Guru

Lives in Limbo