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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Visitors look at calligraphy written by Korean independence fighter Ahn Jung-geun at Gyeonggi Province Museum in Yongin, south of Seoul, on Dec. 21, 2025. The calligraphic writing has eight Chinese ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Calligrapher and teacher Theresa Leland will be offering Calligraphy, the Uncial (Celtic) ...

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 ...

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 ...