Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

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

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

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

Dario Robleto artist profile

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

What Will Become of the Library?

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

The Wonderful World of Bluth

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

Giant Steps

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

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

No Gogh!

Unveiling “Austin”

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

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

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

Robert Irwin in Marfa

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

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

“Trapped” in the Limelight

Welcome to Texas, Elon

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

Lives in Limbo

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

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

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

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

The Catastrophe Guru

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

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

The Clothes that Make the Man

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

Wall Flowers

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

The Great Mellowing

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

The Last Book Sale

The Image in the 21st Century

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

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

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

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son