I started with drawing, and then after that, calligraphy." The importance of the art was officially recognized internationally last year, when UNESCO added Arabic calligraphy to its list of ...

University of Toronto Press and the British Library today announced co-publication of a new art history book, The Art of the ...

Calligraphy was once China’s highest art form—then the Communist Party tried to erase it. Now, under Xi Jinping, it’s making a comeback. At Sotheby’s in Hong Kong, a rare copy of the ...

Subia Khan Hussain is a self-taught artist from India. “Islamic mysticism and realism are my forte,” she says. She works to ...

Muhammad Yusuf, Features Writer Rubab Zahra is a calligraphy practitioner and an abstract artist who works in a contemporary ...

Tsung's calligraphy at Art Shopping 2025, where Eastern artistry meets contemporary creativity at the Carrousel du Louvre ...

When she turned 100 years old in 2013, she declared herself married to her work and continued producing art. Shinoda was born on March 28, 1913 in Manchuria, China and returned to Japan when she was ...

Once a practical way to transcribe, calligraphy has evolved into a fine art. As the practice we recognize today spread across East Asia, countries like China, Japan, and Korea developed their own ...

[Photo provided to China Daily] All along, language barriers have largely kept foreigners from fully appreciating the beauty of Chinese calligraphy, a visual art form often compared to modern ...