Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

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

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

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

“Trapped” in the Limelight

Robert Irwin in Marfa

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

The Image in the 21st Century

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

The Catastrophe Guru

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

What Will Become of the Library?

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

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

The Wonderful World of Bluth

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Giant Steps

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

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

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

Unveiling “Austin”

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

The Great Mellowing

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

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

The Last Book Sale

No Gogh!

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

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

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

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

Wall Flowers

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

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

Dario Robleto artist profile

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Lives in Limbo

The Clothes that Make the Man

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

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

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

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

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

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

Welcome to Texas, Elon

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation