Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

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

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

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

“Trapped” in the Limelight

The Great Mellowing

The Catastrophe Guru

Welcome to Texas, Elon

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

Unveiling “Austin”

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

Wall Flowers

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

Giant Steps

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

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

The Wonderful World of Bluth

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

Dario Robleto artist profile

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

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

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

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

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

What Will Become of the Library?

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

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

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

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

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

The Image in the 21st Century

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

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

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

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

The Clothes that Make the Man

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

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

The Last Book Sale

Robert Irwin in Marfa

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

Lives in Limbo

No Gogh!

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0