“Art Rocks,” at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, looks at the culture that grew up around such “guai shi” and their importance to Chinese visual arts.

An ongoing show at the Guardian Art Center in Beijing provides a rare chance to see the history of Chinese calligraphy through the eyes of Qi Gong (1912-2005), who was best known as a calligrapher ...

This photo show “Two Calligraphy of Poetry” by Yang Weizhen from the Yuan dynasty. It is part of the $12 million Chinese calligraphy gift to University of Michigan Museum of Art from the Lo ...

Some of the rubbings also show pictorial designs carved on stones to complement the writing. The study and appreciation of the calligraphy inscribed on archaic tablets gained momentum in the ...

Traditionally, Chinese calligraphy is written only in black ink, ... A stone or ceramic inkstone is used to grind the solid inkstick into liquid ink and to contain the ink once it is liquid.