“If you look up his art,” Coulon said, “you’ll see a definite influence on mine.” Tallboy, "Eyeball Frog." Tattoo on a calf made at North Street Tattoo in Salem.

Leave the tourist tchotchkes behind — the best keepsake from vacation is body art, according to some travelers. Ivana – stock.adobe.com. California tattoo artist Rose Hardy previously told ...

I am interested in getting a tattoo but I want to do it safely. Any advice on the safety of tattoos and, if I change my mind later in life, is there any risk to having it removed?

Admittedly, the tattoo may not yet be entirely the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s well of ink. But, as Bob Dylan would say, “it’s gettin’ there.” Tattoos are a highly complicated phenomenon.

For decades, one of the most intriguing of these unknowns has been a mysterious 19th-century tattoo artist by the name of C.H. Fellowes. This March, some dogged sleuthing by an amateur genealogist ...