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Slideshow: Tattoo you

Some of Boston's best tattoos

By PHOENIX STAFF | July 25, 2008

Inspired by the Peabody Essex Museum’s current exhibition on Maori tattoos, we raised a call to adventurously inked souls in Boston. You sent in photos — from the artistic to the sadistic — along with quotes about what your body art means to you. A panel of tattoo artists (plus Darkbuster’s Lenny Lashley) judged the entries.

I have always been a diehard sox fan and I always wanted a Red Sox Tattoo to show I wasn't a Bobby Bandwagon fan with an average tattoo. So I got a half sleeve of what is heaven on earth, Fenway Park and the backround of Fenway and both the 2004 and 2007 world series banner. My name is Paul and I'm from Weymouth Mass.

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Slideshow: Peabody Essex Museum exhibit highlights
Images from "Wedded Bliss," "Painting Summer in New England," "Joseph Cornell," and more
Beauty and the East
Gallery-goers with an affinity for art from Asia will have plenty of reason for excitement with a handful of enticing shows this winter.
Maritime after time
There's no question about the Peabody Essex Museum's unwavering love of all things nautical. How many other museums employ a curator of maritime art and history (in this case, Daniel Finamore)?
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Slideshow: Peabody Essex Museum exhibit highlights
Images from "Wedded Bliss," "Painting Summer in New England," "Joseph Cornell," and more
Beauty and the East
Gallery-goers with an affinity for art from Asia will have plenty of reason for excitement with a handful of enticing shows this winter.
Maritime after time
There's no question about the Peabody Essex Museum's unwavering love of all things nautical. How many other museums employ a curator of maritime art and history (in this case, Daniel Finamore)?
Photos: SurfLand at Peabody Essex Museum
SurfLand at Peabody Essex Museum, photos by Joni Sternbach, now showing through October 4
Sarong, it's right
The Peabody Essex Museum in Salem has another show of historically relevant new art up its sleeve, this time focusing on Asia's other giant: India.
Life is a highway
In August 2006, more than 200 artists, architects, and assorted citizens of the world traversed the former Yugoslavia’s former Highway of Brotherhood and Unity, exploring the cultural and urban landscape of nine cities in the Western Balkans as an experimental, temporary society.
Photos: 'The Kennedys' at Peabody Essex Museum
"The Kennedys” exhibit at Peabody Essex Museum, through July 18
Water world
What's the difference between art photography and fashion photography? That's the question I kept wondering about at Joni Sternbach's "SurfLand" exhibition at Salem's Peabody Essex Museum.
States of the art
In New England, where you can't swing a sack of cranberries without hitting a venerable cultural institution, anyone with access to a car (or even a subway pass) can scope out these topnotch art museums.
Ruling the waves
The Dutch emerged at the dawn of the 17th century as a pre-eminent military and commercial power on the sea. They were in the midst of throwing off Spanish rule and developing a shipping empire that would reach from the Americas to South Africa to Asia.
I spy
Artist Julia Scher was way ahead of the Homeland Security gang’s obsession with electronic eavesdropping and video voyeurism, having made high-tech installations that allowed museum and gallery goers to watch each other watching each other since the late 1980s.
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