A Virginia school district is defending a classroom assignment that required students to practice calligraphy by writing the Muslim statement of faith, “There is no god but Allah. Muhammad is the ...

SEOUL (THE KOREA HERALD/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - There was a time when Chinese character calligraphers criticised Hangeul calligraphy for being "too unsophisticated." Luckily, a few calligraphers ignored ...

NEW YORK, December 16, 2008 – Islamic art scholars Oleg Grabar, professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study, and Glenn D. Lowry, director of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, engaged in a ...

In East Asia, there is a long-standing theory that calligraphy and painting have the same origins. However, calligraphy in Korea failed to keep up with the times as the country went through Japanese ...

Craftsmen mounted the calligraphy in books, often inside gold borders and alongside elaborate illustrations. This folio dates to the 16th century. Freer/Sackler Gallery A Persian calligraphy that ...

An exhibition showcasing Islamic calligraphy by Chinese artists will open at Gallery6 on today (Friday). Titled “Revered calligraphy by Chinese,” the exhibition displays rare artworks from the ...

The 41-year-old French man, who also goes by his Vietnamese name Truong Giang, was dressed in traditional attire as he hung his Tet (Lunar New Year) calligraphy. No one else showcasing their art that ...

More he waits for work, more he fears it shall stop coming to him. Altogether. When 62-year-old Mohammad Yakub, a katib or traditional calligrapher in Old Delhi’s Urdu Bazaar, breaks into a near ...