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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Human Marks: Tattooing in Contemporary Art will make its debut at Joseloff Gallery on September 11, followed by a full-day symposium on September 12. The exhibition brings together fifteen global ...

The art of tattooing may have found a diagnostic twist. A team of scientists in Germany have developed permanent dermal sensors that can be applied as artistic tattoos. A colorimetric analytic ...

Tattoos mark the body with a unique pattern—but tattoos, just like anything else, are subject to trends. Currently, a design category defined by long, spearlike lines, symmetrical, tribal-like ...

During a Tuesday ribbon-cutting ceremony for two new technical programs at Algoa Correctional Center, an inmate thanked ...

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, ...

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 ...

Ember & Ink Studio opens April 20 in Tannersville. Here, tattoo artists wear dress shirts and ties and clients have private ...