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Meet the Tattoo Artists Who Champion Body Positivity 

Avatar photo by Billie Anania November 14, 2022November 17, 2022

Young, queer, and non-White tattoo artists are exploring how the artform can complement the body’s natural curves and colors.

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Local Politician Tattooed Teen’s “I Voted” Sticker on Her Arm 

by Rhea Nayyar November 11, 2022November 11, 2022

The deputy mayor of New Paltz, New York, tweeted that she would get a 14-year-old’s design tattooed if it won Ulster County’s “I Voted” sticker contest. She actually did it

Posted inBooks

A Tattoo Artist’s History of Tattoos

by David Carrier February 27, 2021February 26, 2021

TATTOO: 1730s-1970s. Henk Schiffmacher’s Private Collection is strong on the presentation of images, but says very little about their meaning.

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Tattoo Artist Ed Hardy Enters Museum Doors

Avatar photo by Emily Wilson August 20, 2019

“It’s a terrific affirmation, not only for myself, but for a lot of the old bandits and pirates that helped me in the business.”

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Researchers Believe They’ve Identified the World’s Oldest Tattoo Kit

by Claire Voon April 30, 2018

The findings lend insight into ancient Native American inking traditions.

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An Artist Borrows from Obscure Books for a Pop-Up Tattoo Shop

Avatar photo by Elisa Wouk Almino April 11, 2018April 11, 2018

For her tattoo designs, Doreen Garner mined the Reanimation Library, a collection of obscure books, finding hand signals and “the occasional escalator going up into a vagina.”

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World’s Oldest Figural Tattoos Found on Two Ancient Egyptian Mummies

by Claire Voon March 2, 2018March 2, 2018

The 5,000-year-old mummies, which have been at the British Museum, have tattoos of a wild bull, sheep, and alphabet-like motifs.

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Japan’s Tattoo Art, in Classic Woodblock Prints

Avatar photo by Edward M. Gómez November 4, 2017November 3, 2017

Ukiyo-e artists produced woodblock prints incorporating depictions of tattooed bodies that told personal stories of their own.

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The History of Tattoos in New York, from Bowery Sensation to Banned Art

Avatar photo by Allison Meier April 6, 2017April 6, 2017

The New-York Historical Society explores three centuries of Gotham’s relationship to the tattoo through vintage images, electric pens, and live demonstrations.

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Ancient Obsidian Tools Were Used for Tattooing, Archaeologists Find

by Claire Voon July 15, 2016April 27, 2018

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 inked themselves with volcanic glass.

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The World’s Oldest Tattoos Are on the Weathered Skin of an Alpine Ice Mummy

Avatar photo by Allison Meier December 16, 2015March 24, 2017

When hikers in the Alps stumbled upon the mummy known as Ötzi the Iceman along the Austrian–Italian border in 1991, the body was so well preserved that they feared they’d discovered the corpse of a fellow mountaineer.

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“Tech Tats” Turn Wearable Devices into Cyberpunk Body Art

Avatar photo by Carey Dunne November 24, 2015December 1, 2015

Since the beginning of the Quantified Self Movement, designers have struggled to create wearable tech that people actually want to wear, and that doesn’t make the wearer look like a raging Glasshole.

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