Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

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

The Last Book Sale

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

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

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

The Catastrophe Guru

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

Welcome to Texas, Elon

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

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

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

The Wonderful World of Bluth

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

No Gogh!

Giant Steps

Dario Robleto artist profile

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

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

The Clothes that Make the Man

What Will Become of the Library?

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

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

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

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

“Trapped” in the Limelight

Robert Irwin in Marfa

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

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

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

The Image in the 21st Century

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Lives in Limbo

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

Wall Flowers

Unveiling “Austin”

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

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

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

The Great Mellowing

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

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

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas