Dark & fetish art

A collection of dark and fetish art of more than 40 contemporary artists from all over the world such as Zdzisław Beksiński, Nicoletta Ceccoli, Ray Caesar, James Jean, John Santerineross, Popovy Sisters, and Elizabeth Mcgrath.Gothic taste, decadence, doll-like and Lolita-esque style － the world o...

Edo-punk!

Japanese family crests and designs

Once more unto the breach

Tattooing the world

In the 1830s an Irishman named James F. O'Connell acquired a full-body tattoo while living as a castaway in the Pacific. The tattoo featured traditional patterns that, to native Pohnpeians, defined O'Connell's life; they made him wholly human. Yet upon traveling to New York, these markings single...

Truly tribal

Nineteen Indigenous ancestral skin markers from fifteen Nations and cultures around the world discuss their reclamation of traditional tattooing practices.

Under the skin

Under the Skin investigates the role of cross-cultural body modification in seventeenth-century and eighteenth-century North America, revealing that the practices of tattooing and scalping were crucial to interactions between Natives and newcomers. These permanent and painful marks could act as s...

Yokai