Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

The Image in the 21st Century

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

Giant Steps

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

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

Lives in Limbo

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

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

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

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

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

“Trapped” in the Limelight

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

Dario Robleto artist profile

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

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

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

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

Robert Irwin in Marfa

No Gogh!

The Catastrophe Guru

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

The Last Book Sale

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

The Great Mellowing

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

The Clothes that Make the Man

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

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

Unveiling “Austin”

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

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

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

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

Welcome to Texas, Elon

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

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

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

What Will Become of the Library?

Wall Flowers

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

The Wonderful World of Bluth

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

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

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

What Will Become of the Paper Book?