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

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

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

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

The Image in the 21st Century

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Wall Flowers

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

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

The Great Mellowing

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

The Wonderful World of Bluth

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

The Clothes that Make the Man

Robert Irwin in Marfa

“Trapped” in the Limelight

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

Unveiling “Austin”

What Will Become of the Library?

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

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

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

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

Dario Robleto artist profile

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

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

The Catastrophe Guru

Giant Steps

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

No Gogh!

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

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

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

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

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

Welcome to Texas, Elon

Lives in Limbo

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

The Last Book Sale

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

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