Forty years ago, Don Ed Hardy blew off a Yale fine-art fellowship to pursue the rogue art of tattoo, a timeless and often taboo tradition that captivated him as a boy in the Orange County beach ...

The first thing you notice walking into Don Ed Hardy's art studio, located in a former fish factory on a nondescript side street in North Beach, is the silence. Having spent nearly half a century ...

Ed Hardy's new memoir, "Wear Your Dreams: My Life in Tattoos," features examples of his tattoo art on the cover.

Five miles southwest of Tattoo City, a lively exhibition at the de Young Museum sheds light on Hardy as wide-ranging artist and tattoo pioneer. Through 300 paintings, prints, drawings and objects ...

The Corona del Mar-born artist returned to Southern California on Wednesday for a screening at Laguna Art Museum of “Ed Hardy Tattoo the World,” a film by longtime friend Emiko Omori.

In May, I found myself on the Bowery getting a tattoo designed by Ed Hardy. He was to the right of me, and his son Doug to my left. How did I get here?

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Before Ed Hardy became a lifestyle of tattoo-printed T-shirts, $100 ...

There’s More to Ed Hardy Than T-Shirts Mr. Hardy is well known—for better or worse—for his apparel line, but the American artist's legacy goes much deeper.

The de Young museum is taking on the work of Ed Hardy, one of the late 20th century's most iconic artists, at their new exhibit, "Deeper Than Skin." ...

(KRON) — Ed Hardy’s infamous tattoo parlor, Tattoo City, will permanently close this year. The announcement, made on the store’s Instagram page on Thursday, said it will close at the end of ...

“Ed Hardy’s mission (was) to elevate the tattoo form from its subculture status back in the 1960s at least to a level of a folk art. I think he surpassed that,” said curator Karin Breuer.