City Reliquary founder Dave Herman at his museum in Williamsburg. Gabriella Bass. Before Liberty the Tattooed Lady closes to the public for good, City Reliquary will be hosting a Statue of Liberty ...

Although fictional, the characters in “The Tattooed Lady” are loosely based on historic tattooed ladies Nora Hidebrandt and Maud Wagner. Maud Wagner was the first known female tattoo artist. She was ...

Tattooed ladies were once carnival freaks. Now they're cool hipster chicks. A recently published third edition of a book about body art, Bodies of Subversion: A Secret History of Women and the ...

The Tattooed Lady's titular character is loosely based on Maud Wagner, the first known female tattoo artist who died in 1961, and Nora Hidebrandt — a woman who was tattooed using the stick-and ...

In order to collect large, public, and so-called ugly tattoos, the women have to defend their choices on a daily basis. This is often a difficult position, even for the most confident.

Margot Mifflin’s 1997 book, “Bodies of Subversion: A Secret History of Women and Tattoo,” examines this trend, which, it turns out, has been surprisingly long in the making.

Winston Churchill’s mother Lady Randolph Churchill is said to have had a snake tattoo on her wrist (easily covered by a wineglass or sleeve); by the turn of the 20th century, roughly three ...

Dutch tattoo artist Henk Schiffmacher, whose past clients include Lady Gaga, Kurt Cobain and Keith Haring, said in a recent video interview that the internet has created a whole new audience for ink.