Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

“Trapped” in the Limelight

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

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

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

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

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

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

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

The Catastrophe Guru

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

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

Lives in Limbo

The Wonderful World of Bluth

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

Dario Robleto artist profile

Wall Flowers

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

The Great Mellowing

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

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

Unveiling “Austin”

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

Welcome to Texas, Elon

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

The Image in the 21st Century

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

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

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

The Last Book Sale

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

No Gogh!

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

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

What Will Become of the Library?

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Giant Steps

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

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

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

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

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

Robert Irwin in Marfa

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

The Clothes that Make the Man

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

What Will Become of the Paper Book?