Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

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

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

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

The Clothes that Make the Man

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

No Gogh!

“Trapped” in the Limelight

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

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

Lives in Limbo

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

Welcome to Texas, Elon

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

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

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

The Great Mellowing

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

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

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

Giant Steps

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

Robert Irwin in Marfa

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

The Image in the 21st Century

The Wonderful World of Bluth

The Catastrophe Guru

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

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

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

What Will Become of the Library?

Wall Flowers

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

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

Unveiling “Austin”

The Last Book Sale

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

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

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

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

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

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Dario Robleto artist profile