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 ...

Chinese calligraphy has been a popular art form for centuries, particularly during the Spring Festival, or Lunar New Year. It is said that writing calligraphy at the beginning of the year brings good ...

Tran Thi Son Truc, a fourth-year student at Hanoi University, who won first prize in a Chinese-Vietnamese interpreting ...

Beautiful fonts are indispensable when designing something such as websites and posters, but handwritten characters have a unique goodness not found in digital, and in recent years it has attracted ...

This exhibition Islamic Calligraphy in Practice and its companion exhibition,Writing the Word of God: Calligraphy and the Qur’an, explore Islamic art’s quintessential art form: calligraphy. In the ...

KUALA LUMPUR: Young Malaysians from diverse backgrounds are uniting through their shared passion for calligraphy, achieving both national and international acclaim. The Kuala Lumpur World Calligraphy ...

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 ...

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 Orchid Pavilion ...