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Discreetly, the young in Japan chip away at a taboo on tattoos

April 24, 2022 4:41 pm

With each scroll of their phones, young Japanese have become more exposed to tattoos worn by famous singers and models, chipping away at the stigma against body art and emboldening them to challenge entrenched social expectations about their appearance.

Cuban women emerge from shadows to promote body art once seen as taboo

March 07, 2022 9:56 am

While tattoos themselves are not illegal in Cuba, the island's traditional "machista" culture has long stygmatized the practice, relegating it largely to seamen, prostitutes and prisoners.

From X-ray flower tattoos to realistic tattoos: Getting inked has become much more interesting

May 21, 2019 7:14 pm

Tattoos have become a way for art lovers to display a thought or bit of their personality on their body.

World Wide Web

January 20, 2015 12:55 pm

Artist Hetain Patel uses Spiderman in his latest solo to talk about racial stereotyping.

Heavily-tattooed British man denied passport for his weird name

February 03, 2014 7:06 pm

The passport office refused to issue the document for Body Art, despite his new name already showing on his driving licence.

Angelina Jolie opens up about her ‘body art’

September 14, 2010 10:48 am

Her tattoos have made as much of an impact as her movies and private life do.

Body tattoos becoming popular in Pakistan cities

March 02, 2009 3:55 pm

The emergence of tattoo culture has brought with it several new artists who have technical and fine arts training,leading to an improvement in the quality of tattoos.

BODY ART PHOTOS

Really amazing body art

April 17, 2016 3:37 pm

Body art has long been a very controversial subject. But, if we were to look at all art for arts' sake, this collection of body artworks really amazes.

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