Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

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

The Wonderful World of Bluth

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

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

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

The Great Mellowing

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

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

The Last Book Sale

Wall Flowers

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

What Will Become of the Library?

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

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

Welcome to Texas, Elon

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

Giant Steps

The Catastrophe Guru

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

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

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

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

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

Robert Irwin in Marfa

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

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

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

Dario Robleto artist profile

The Clothes that Make the Man

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

The Image in the 21st Century

“Trapped” in the Limelight

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

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

Unveiling “Austin”

Lives in Limbo

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

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

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

No Gogh!

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)