Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

The Image in the 21st Century

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

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

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

“Trapped” in the Limelight

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

The Great Mellowing

Dario Robleto artist profile

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

The Last Book Sale

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

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

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

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

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

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Welcome to Texas, Elon

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Unveiling “Austin”

The Wonderful World of Bluth

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

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

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

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

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

Wall Flowers

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

No Gogh!

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

The Clothes that Make the Man

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

Lives in Limbo

What Will Become of the Library?

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

Giant Steps

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

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

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

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

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

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

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

The Catastrophe Guru

Robert Irwin in Marfa