The dealer who co-founded Ricco/Maresca gallery in 1979 just opened "Flash!" a show of designs by WWII-era tattoo artist Tino "Rosie" Camanga.

Tattoo is among humanity’s earliest and most ubiquitous art forms. Cultures from every habitable continent have embedded permanent dyes in their bodies for more than 5000 years—as mystical ...

Langley and Clark think the 2,700-year-old tattoo combs might have been used in a similar way, and the artifacts offer evidence of the deep antiquity of tattooing in Tonga.

According to his book, Schiffmacher himself accompanied tattoo artist Gordon Toi and actor Cliff Curtis, both of Māori descent, in the early 2000s to recover a mokomokai from a Parisian art dealer.

Every marking and tattoo placement is meant to be a visual language. Batok gained worldwide awareness after a 106-year-old practitioner Api Whang-Od became Vogue Magazine’s oldest cover model .

The toe bone of a prehistoric deer carved with lines by Neanderthals 51,000 years ago is one of the oldest works of art ever found, according to a study released Monday.

Over 1,000 pieces of original tattoo art from some of the world's most prominent tattoo artists are going on the auction block. The eye-catching visuals are painted on canvas, board and paper.

Researchers found an engraved deer bone that is at least 51,000 years old in northern Germany, which they believe might be among the oldest pieces of reliably dated art.