Eva Recinos

Just ask anyone who loves the smell of new books: print still holds a place in the hearts of even the most digital-savvy tablet owner. But it's also been important to artists. The Craft and Folk Art Museum’s new show “Chapters: Book Arts in Southern California" traces the development of......

Many a perfume and cologne ad would have the fragrance-buying public believe that love and attraction have everything to do with scent. The way a person smells can attract a sultry woman from all the way across the room, completely deplete her defenses and lure her to your hotel room......

The Guerrilla Girls have been saying it since the 1980s: the art world favors men. In 2014, only 14 percent of the Guggenheim’s solo shows were dedicated to female artists. Even the Tate Modern in London features predominantly male artists, with only 25 percent of their solo exhibition from the years......

In contemporary art history, every great photographer seems to point to a specific lesson or genre. Mention street photography and you get names like Henri Cartier-Bresson and the idea of the Decisive Moment. Bring up Lee Friedlander and you get discussions on shadows and the social context of photos. Working......

Even as a toddler, Gelare Khoshgozaran could tell something was wrong. She fumed as she hid under the stairs with her parents, wondering why they laughed and told jokes while jets flew overhead. “I would look at my brother’s face and he was terrified,” says Khoshgozaran. “And I knew that......

Los Angeles is often lauded as a diverse city, but rarely do the stories of the indigenous communities that make up the city’s history get the credit they deserve. If they do, they're often overshadowed by their colonialist counterparts, garnering little more than a few textbook pages. But these communities......

The process seems simple: classic poems are read aloud and students raise their hands to claim them. But what happens next could actually change the way that many students approach writing, language, poetry and the way that they process the things that happen in their lives. Get Lit is an......

Illustrator Godeleine de Rosamel's book Drawing With Circles has a simple premise: it lets young artists “create some of their very first masterpieces” by using just circles. On the cover, a dog with an orange body balances a beach ball on his little round nose. The idea is to get kids......

In the early 20th century, when people were beginning to grasp the power of photography, the medium's possibilities seemed endless. Beyond portraiture, photography was suddenly recognized as a way to document entire communities and their ways of life. For Edward S. Curtis, that power to capture a moment in time......