Thin wallets and accessible machinery birth a new generation of tattoo artists and clients willing to bypass licensing norms.

From Japanese dragons to sacred geometry, these sleeves showcase the diversity of large-scale tattooing.

After weeks of social distancing due to the coronavirus pandemic, a lot of us are starting to go stir crazy. While boredom has driven some people to cut their own bangs or maybe dye their hair that ...

I’m Özgün, a tattoo artist based in Istanbul, and I’ve been tattooing for about eight years. Recently, my girlfriend and I opened our own private studio, Atelier Dimora, where we focus on creating ...

Our modern taste for ink is an outgrowth of traditions far older than you may realize. For thousands of years, humans have inscribed their bodies with symbols — to signal identity and status, to ...

MILTON -- Inside the Eustis Estate in Milton is an exhibit of expression. The "Loud, Naked, & In Three Colors" exhibit shows the history of tattooing in Boston. "The very, very early tattoos were ...

You may find stick-and-pokes an intense form of tattooing, but the use of needles, safety pins, or other common sharp objects doesn't look quite so rough when you consider that ancient Melanesians ...

This fall, the inaugural cohort of Rhode Island School of Design students enrolled in ILLUS 3701-01: “Introduction to Tattooing,” the first tattooing course offered in the school’s history. The class, ...

Lyle Tuttle, the "father of modern tattooing," died yesterday (March 26) at the age of 87. The San Francisco artist was known as one of the pioneers of American modern tattoos and has worked with rock ...

The "Tattooed New York" exhibit is opening at the New-York Historical Society on February 3rd, and while it will examine three centuries of tattooing in New York, we're going to zero in on one odd era ...