Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

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

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

The Great Mellowing

The Clothes that Make the Man

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

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

Welcome to Texas, Elon

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

The Image in the 21st Century

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

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

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

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

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

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

The Wonderful World of Bluth

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

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

“Trapped” in the Limelight

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

Robert Irwin in Marfa

Wall Flowers

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

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

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

The Catastrophe Guru

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

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

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

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

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

Giant Steps

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

What Will Become of the Library?

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

No Gogh!

Lives in Limbo

The Last Book Sale

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

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

Dario Robleto artist profile

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

Unveiling “Austin”

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