Living Galleries: Are Tattoo Collections Fine Art?
Inside three Portlanders' extensive, expensive, and rare tattoo collections, decades in the making.
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Inside three Portlanders' extensive, expensive, and rare tattoo collections, decades in the making.
/PRNewswire/ -- This exclusive edition, limited to 100 pieces, is signed, numbered, stamped, and hand embellished in 23-karat gold leaf. Adrian Lee has...
For those who have them, tattoos are a way to mark a significant event in life, a form of creative expression, or something that's, well, cool. Whatever the reason, this form of body art is super personal to each wearer. Needless to say, there are many styles of tattoo art, ranging from the bold look of the traditional method to...
Author, Rachel Kushner. Photo by Gabby Laurent. An illegal motorcycle race, a Palestinian refugee camp, the prison abolition movement, the writer Clarice Lispector, a notable Italian movie, a young life in the music scene of San Francisco, and more: Rachel Kushner speaks about creating a through line for a career-spanning collection of nineteen essays in “The Hard Crowd.” These essays plunge into worlds pulsing with life beyond the writer; and she says the essays speak to each other. There is tonal fluidity between literary journalism, memoir, cultural and soci...
“It’s alright, Ma, I’m only bleeding.” You live your life alone but tethered to the deed of a mother. You live your life naked to the world and what it will pile upon you. And, no, you will not avoid death. You won’t survive it. And by “you” I mean not just Jesus, who is invoked in this Bob Dylan song, whether intentionally or not, but you as in you, the person reading this. Someone loves you. That’s not small. You suffer and she watches, living or dead. She can’t protect you, but it’s alright, Ma, I can make it.