One in three Australian women now have a tattoo, and most don’t stop at one. What is the compulsion to keep adding ink?

Three lessons: Mermaids, dragons and grinning skulls can live on the human body. Ink sometimes lasts longer than love. And a scorpion tattoo at 20 years old can sag into a lobster by 40. This is a ...

For A.J. McGuire, it all comes down to lines. Originally from Buffalo, New York, McGuire studied drawing and printmaking in college and developed an affinity for line drawing. He eventually applied ...

TEACHERS WEAR off and fade away. As much as we hate to think about it, we’re all destined for obsolescence. Twenty years ago, I taught sixth grade at Brier Elementary School. That year, as usual, I ...

Tattoo artists and ink connoisseurs traveled to Amarillo from all over the country for the popular seventh annual, three-day Ink Life Tattoo and Music Festival. And they came not just hear the metal ...

In 1907, a circus tightrope walker named Maud Stevens met "Tattooed Globetrotter" Gus Wagner at the St. Louis World's Fair. Wagner wanted a date, and Stevens wanted tattoo lessons. Things worked out ...