Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

The Image in the 21st Century

Unveiling “Austin”

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

No Gogh!

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

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

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Robert Irwin in Marfa

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

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

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

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

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

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

“Trapped” in the Limelight

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

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

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

Dario Robleto artist profile

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

Giant Steps

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

The Last Book Sale

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

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

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

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

The Clothes that Make the Man

Lives in Limbo

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

What Will Become of the Library?

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

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

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

Wall Flowers

The Wonderful World of Bluth

Welcome to Texas, Elon

The Catastrophe Guru

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

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

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

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

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 Great Mellowing