Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

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

Welcome to Texas, Elon

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

Dario Robleto artist profile

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

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

No Gogh!

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

Unveiling “Austin”

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

The Image in the 21st Century

Lives in Limbo

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

Robert Irwin in Marfa

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

The Catastrophe Guru

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

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

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

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

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

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

What Will Become of the Library?

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

The Clothes that Make the Man

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

Giant Steps

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

The Great Mellowing

The Last Book Sale

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

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

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

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

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

The Wonderful World of Bluth

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

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

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

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

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

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

“Trapped” in the Limelight

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

Wall Flowers