Ashley De Vor is a young and talented artist who hails from Phoenix, Arizona. She dabbles in a variety of artistic mediums to create art that is full of beautiful dark imagery. She describes her work as “a concoction of beauty mixed with horror and a few quirks from the artist.” Her mediums include oil, watercolor, graphite, and more recently ink on skin. We had a chance to get a glimpse into the creative

An estimated 40 million Americans have at least one tattoo somewhere on their body. So who is the country’s preeminent tattoo artist ? “Ink Master” is the first-ever tattoo competition series featuring some of the nation’s top tattoo artists on a quest to determine who is the best at their craft and who will win a huge cash prize. Throughout the competition, the artists battle it out in various tattoo challenges that test the artists’ technical

Chris Nuñez has over twenty years of experience tattooing clients across the globe. Fans will remember him from his days opposite Ami James on “ Miami Ink ” where the tattoos accompanied the shop drama. This week, Nuñez takes a step back from working with his tattoo gun and premiers as a judge in his newest TV venture on SpikeTV’s “ Ink Master .” This show pits industry authorities head-to-head in elimination competitions each week. He took the time to talk

Saturday, November 12th proved to be the successful launch of Wooster Street Social Club ’s Mobilis in Mobili : An Exhibition of Steampunk Art and Appliance – and New York Body Art/ VAR magazine was on the scene, scoping out our future location for VAR magazine’s launch party on the weekend of January 12th-15th. Steampunk , a subculture and an artistic movement that incorporates Victorian Era steam power innovations with a modern-day twist (think “The Wild Wild West” – the 1999 Will Smith

NY Body Art has been away for a minute, but now that we’re back, allow me to orient you to our new platform. In conjunction with VAR Magazine (December 2011 release), NY Body Art will now be the source in up close interviews and reports on the people inside counter-culture . We’re moving beyond editorials about some guy or girl’s killer tattoo and going right to the artists, musicians, hipsters and tastemakers who are guiding