Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

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

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

The Image in the 21st Century

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

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

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

The Catastrophe Guru

What Will Become of the Library?

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

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

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

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

The Wonderful World of Bluth

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

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

The Clothes that Make the Man

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

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

No Gogh!

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

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

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

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

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

Robert Irwin in Marfa

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

Wall Flowers

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

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

Giant Steps

Unveiling “Austin”

Lives in Limbo

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

The Great Mellowing

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

Dario Robleto artist profile

Welcome to Texas, Elon

The Last Book Sale

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

“Trapped” in the Limelight

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

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?