Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

Dario Robleto artist profile

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

Robert Irwin in Marfa

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

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

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

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

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

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

The Catastrophe Guru

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

“Trapped” in the Limelight

Unveiling “Austin”

Giant Steps

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

The Great Mellowing

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

The Image in the 21st Century

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

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

Lives in Limbo

Welcome to Texas, Elon

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

No Gogh!

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

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

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

The Wonderful World of Bluth

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Wall Flowers

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

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

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

The Last Book Sale

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

The Clothes that Make the Man

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

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

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

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

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

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

What Will Become of the Library?