The amusement park area boasted in the 1940s and 1950s the highest concentration of tattoo shops in the U.S., the museum says. A gallery toward the end of the exhibition tells the stories not only of the black-and-gray style but of the Long Beach Pike scene. The museum has built a working tattoo parlor, an amalgamation of classic California parlors, in which visitors can watch live demonstrations and get inked by one of 20 visiting artists. Another gallery showcases the work of female tattoo artists in indigenous cultures a video documentary depicts a 100-year-old Filipina woman, a member of the Kalinga tribe, training her niece in the art form. tattoo artist Kari Barba, who operates Outer Limits Tattoo in Long Beach, the longest continually running tattoo studio in the U.S., the museum says. Front and center is a graphic octopus design by pioneering L.A. The entrance gallery features original tattoo designs on lifesize silicon body parts. A primary goal, the museum says, is to showcase the role of women in the art form. So this exhibition is trying to take what you see on the streets and kind of unpack it, go deeper, understand that this is part of this bigger human impulse to mark our bodies.”Ībout a third of the exhibition is content original to the Natural History Museum. “But we don’t have this broader understanding of how this tradition came to be. It’s mainstream,” says the museum’s vice president of exhibitions, Gretchen Baker. “Now you walk down the street and almost everyone is tattooed. There’s even a live Instagram feed on an interactive screen, with images of museum visitors’ tattoos.
One gallery dives into tattooing as a world heritage another presents the exchange of artistic ideas between North America, Asia and Europe. The show leads viewers from a display of tattoo tools dating to the 17 th century to an exploration of why people across cultures and time periods got tattoos. from Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History, covers 5,000 years of tattoo culture with artifacts, photographs and multimedia. The exhibition, organized by the Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac in Paris and traveling to L.A.
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