The days of perusing tattoo-parlor walls for that perfect piece of flash, or tattoo-friendly artwork, are giving way to a more tech-savvy alternative: online databases. Inked skin and tattoo ...

It is in the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s collection. View more of the museum’s tattoo-related art, such as this 20th-century tattoo flash (“flash” refers to common tattoo designs drawn on paper ...

Tattoo flash days are not only a way to draw in more traffic, but a way for customers to get a chance to collect tattoos from prominent tattoo artists, who can be booked for months or even years.

“Freaks & Flash” balances these pioneers’ designs with an impressive array of materials by important Midwestern tattoo artists including Rockford, Illinois’s Milton Zeis and Cliff Raven ...

Tattoo flash art by Owen Jensen, courtesy of the Lyle Tuttle Tattoo Art Collection. For the museum’s blog series commemorating the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II, I have focused on ...

FLINT, MI - A new exhibition at the Flint Institute of Arts is putting tattoo culture in the spotlight with MI Ink: The Art of Tattoos, a creative display of tattoo artistry. The exhibition, that ...

Somehow, a singularly rare specimen of antique Japanese tattoo flash made its way into the hands of a working-class Arkansan who never traveled much of anywhere. Now, its contents have been ...