Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

Robert Irwin in Marfa

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Welcome to Texas, Elon

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

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

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

The Catastrophe Guru

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

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

The Image in the 21st Century

“Trapped” in the Limelight

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

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

The Clothes that Make the Man

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

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

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

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

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

Wall Flowers

The Wonderful World of Bluth

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

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

The Great Mellowing

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

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

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

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

Lives in Limbo

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

Giant Steps

Dario Robleto artist profile

Unveiling “Austin”

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

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

The Last Book Sale

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

What Will Become of the Library?

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

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

No Gogh!

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

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure