Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

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

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

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

Unveiling “Austin”

The Great Mellowing

Welcome to Texas, Elon

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

“Trapped” in the Limelight

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

Wall Flowers

Lives in Limbo

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

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

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

The Clothes that Make the Man

The Last Book Sale

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

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

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

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

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

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

The Catastrophe Guru

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

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

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

Dario Robleto artist profile

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

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

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

What Will Become of the Library?

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

No Gogh!

The Wonderful World of Bluth

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

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

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

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

The Image in the 21st Century

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

Robert Irwin in Marfa

Giant Steps

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