Tattooing can be traced back over 5,000 years to a naturally mummified human named Ötzi, whose 61 charcoal-incised markings are believed to be the oldest tattoos in the world. The practice of inking ...

Artists have been using ink for thousands of years. But as Faith Salie now tells us, only a particular type of artist can lay claim to having created a true body of work: When it comes to body art, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The days of perusing tattoo-parlor walls for that perfect piece of flash, or tattoo-friendly artwork, are giving way to a more tech-savvy alternative: online ...

When Jeremy Corns started tattooing in the early 2000s, it was a hard skill to learn. "All your references were magazines, even books," he says. "Information was really hard to find. It was still a ...

We’re headed to Texas to talk to 20-year tattooing veteran Karen Slafter. From how she broke into the industry to where she gets her inspiration, our exclusive interview covers it all. Also, make sure ...

Tattoo artists spend hours turning ideas into permanent art, but they also spend a surprising amount of time answering the ...

The Village Voice and LA Weekly peruse skin-art history by way of an auction of items from tattoo maestro Jonathan Shaw's personal collection.

OFF BOOK explores the diverse world of tattoo art and three of its most unique artists. It seems that no matter how far we advance into the digital age, our bodies remain a place where we want to ...

Megan Massacre tattoos out of the Wooster St. Social Club in New York's SoHo neighborhood, which is also the location of the TLC series "NY Ink," on which she's a featured artist. She marked her ...

NFTs and tattoo culture are two hot markets—but there isn’t typically a significant overlap between them. Indelible, a new startup launched by Mike Amoia, is merging the two worlds together. Indelible ...