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It’s hard to look authentically rebellious or menacing these days, when even well-behaved businessmen wear earrings and ponytails and college students destined for quiet suburban lives have body piercings and tattoos. Tattoos, in particular, are not the radical brandings, the bold violations of flesh and propriety, they once were. Available in New York from almost 1,400 licensed tattoo artists, tattoos are probably better and safer now than they’ve ever been — more creative and varied, applied in many cases by serious, highly skilled body artists.
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Have a Tattoo or Walk With a Limp? The Police May Know
Feb 17, 2010 9:00pm
The New York Police Department’s Real Time Crime Center can jump-start investigations with identifying data like tattoos, teeth and birthmarks....
Ed Hardy’s Tattoo Art Is Booty for Digital Pirates
Nov 12, 2009 9:00pm
Don Ed Hardy, the famed tattoo artist, and his backers battle constantly with counterfeiters who create fake Web sites to peddle knock-offs of his gear....
Self-Expression in Spray Paint and Ink
Aug 10, 2009 9:00pm
A graffiti writer and tattoo artist talks about how he got his start, and his subway-platform encounter with the legendary Iz the Wiz....
Metropolitan Diary
Jul 12, 2009 9:00pm
Autumn romance, a tribute in ink, a letter lost and found, and other tales of city life....
Seafarers’ Memoirs, Written on Skin
May 22, 2009 9:00pm
An exhibition at the Independence Seaport Museum in Philadelphia explores the role of sailors within tattoo culture....
The Body as Billboard: Your Ad Here
Feb 17, 2009 9:00pm
Some marketers are getting their messages across by putting tattoos, both permanent and temporary, on willing wearers....
One Way or Another, Arizona’s Darnell Dockett Will Get His Ink
Jan 31, 2009 9:00pm
Darnell Dockett craves a new tattoo to commemorate a victory in Super Bowl XLIII at Raymond James Stadium....
For an Accuser of the Police, a Family of Sorts
Oct 30, 2008 9:00pm
The Brooklyn tattoo parlor where Michael Mineo works is a tight-knit community....
Tattoos Gain Even More Visibility
Sep 24, 2008 9:00pm
Permanent ink markings have begun creeping toward the traditional no-go zones for all kinds of people....
NATIONAL BRIEFING | THE MILITARY; Large Tattoos Will Bar Marines From Some Duties
Sep 15, 2008 9:00pm
Marine Corps is no longer allowing marines who have extra-large tattoos on their arms to serve as recruiters or security guards at US embassies; photo...
With This Tattoo, I Thee Wed
Sep 13, 2008 9:00pm
Getting your ring-finger tattooed can put you select company. Still want one?...
Single-Speed Race for Multitude of Pedaling Eccentrics
Aug 30, 2008 9:00pm
At the Single Speed World Championship, the top rider wore a revealing “Borat”-style swimsuit he wore during the entire grueling and technical ride....
To Remember Beijing, Indelibly
Aug 23, 2008 9:00pm
Slowly, tattooing is overcoming an ancient stigma in Beijing....
Heaven’s Angels
Aug 23, 2008 9:00pm
Rescue Ink members gruff and beefy men, tattooed from head to toe look like bruisers. But show them a lost kitten or an abused pit bull, and they become tenderhearted rescuers....
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