Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

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

Unveiling “Austin”

No Gogh!

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

Giant Steps

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

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

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

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

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

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

The Great Mellowing

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

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

Welcome to Texas, Elon

Dario Robleto artist profile

The Wonderful World of Bluth

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

What Will Become of the Library?

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

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

The Last Book Sale

Wall Flowers

The Clothes that Make the Man

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

“Trapped” in the Limelight

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

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

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

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

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

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

Robert Irwin in Marfa

The Catastrophe Guru

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

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

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

Lives in Limbo

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

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

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