Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

Welcome to Texas, Elon

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

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

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

The Wonderful World of Bluth

Dario Robleto artist profile

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

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

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

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

What Will Become of the Library?

Lives in Limbo

Giant Steps

Unveiling “Austin”

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

Robert Irwin in Marfa

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

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

Film Reviews and Local Arts Coverage

Austin Chronicle

The Last Book Sale

The Image in the 21st Century

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

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

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

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

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

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

Wall Flowers

The Clothes that Make the Man

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

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

The Great Mellowing

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

No Gogh!

The Catastrophe Guru

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

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

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

“Trapped” in the Limelight

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

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor