Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

The Wonderful World of Bluth

The Image in the 21st Century

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

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

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

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

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

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

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

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

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

Wall Flowers

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

Giant Steps

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

The Catastrophe Guru

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

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

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

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

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

No Gogh!

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

What Will Become of the Library?

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

Welcome to Texas, Elon

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

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

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

Robert Irwin in Marfa

Unveiling “Austin”

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

The Great Mellowing

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

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

“Trapped” in the Limelight

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

Dario Robleto artist profile

The Clothes that Make the Man

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

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

Lives in Limbo

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

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

The Last Book Sale