Eva Recinos

Our mobile phones contain endless entertainment: apps, games, YouTube videos, social media channels, the list goes on. It doesn’t take a lot of effort to get sucked into a black hole of clicking and scrolling — especially when it comes to Instagram. It’s a visual field begging to be explored......

The day after Halloween, when the costumes are packed away, a different celebration begins — one in which death gets discussed in a much different tone. Dia de Los Muertos is a cultural celebration that pays homage to loved ones that have passed away. It also includes a tradition of......

When it comes to the history of contemporary photography, the female body is often portrayed as it's been captured by a male perspective. Maybe it seems like a trite statement at this point, but despite all the theoretical talk about the male gaze and the hierarchy of art-making (with female......

At galleries and museums, a certain decorum is expected. For starters, visitors should keep a safe and respectful distance from the pieces. Sometimes they can take photos, other times they can’t. Some spaces encourage lively chatter, while others prefer silence. Machine Project, an educational arts non-profit organization with a brick-and-mortar......

Frida Kahlo once said that she painted herself because she often found herself alone — and because she knew herself better than she knew anyone else. Once photography became recognized as a fine art, self-portraiture was even easier. Now, with our forward-facing cameras and Snapchat filters, we know our faces pretty......

No matter how sleek our gadgets get or how realistic our video games become, nothing quite beats the tactile experience of pulling the plunger on a pinball machine or selecting songs on a jukebox full of CDs. Angelenos, even tech-obsessed millennials, flood arcade bars on the regular. Beatriz Cortez brings those......

If someone made a master list of uncomfortable dinner-table topics (that probably exists somewhere already, though) gun control would probably be in the top five. It’s a topic that requires not only the wherewithal to bring up painful and traumatic events in U.S. history, both recent and distant, and also......

Trying to explain the plot of an episode of Broad City feels like retelling a drunken adventure, like, while you're still drunk: certain parts don’t quite make sense, others seem utterly fantastical, but all of it is funny as hell. Abbi and Ilana, the pot-smoking, party-hopping stars of the show......

The first thing you might notice about Sara Lyons is her hair. Dyed a dazzling emerald green, it tumbles down past her shoulders, and short bangs frame her forehead. When you look more closely at her face, you'll realize her eyebrows match, too. Just recently, Lyons dyed half of her hair......

Inside an unassuming warehouse space in Central-Alameda, Luis and Lea Remba have spent the past three decades quietly doing something radical.  Mixografia is a printmaking studio, but it's also the name of the family's patented process for creating three-dimensional, high-relief prints that rise up off flat surfaces and take on......