Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

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

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

What Will Become of the Library?

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

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

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

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

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

Robert Irwin in Marfa

The Last Book Sale

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

Wall Flowers

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

Unveiling “Austin”

Giant Steps

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

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

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

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

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

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

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

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

The Image in the 21st Century

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

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

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

The Great Mellowing

Lives in Limbo

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

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

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

No Gogh!

The Clothes that Make the Man

“Trapped” in the Limelight

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

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

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

Dario Robleto artist profile

The Catastrophe Guru

The Wonderful World of Bluth

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

Welcome to Texas, Elon

What Will Become of the Paper Book?