Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

Robert Irwin in Marfa

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

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

Wall Flowers

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

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

Welcome to Texas, Elon

Dario Robleto artist profile

The Catastrophe Guru

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

Lives in Limbo

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

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

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

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

The Wonderful World of Bluth

What Will Become of the Library?

Giant Steps

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

The Great Mellowing

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

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

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

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

“Trapped” in the Limelight

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

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

Unveiling “Austin”

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

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

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

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

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

The Clothes that Make the Man

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

The Last Book Sale

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

The Image in the 21st Century

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

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

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

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

No Gogh!

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

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