For writers, “amazing” has become a word to avoid, says Michael Raleigh, author of the novels “The Blue Moon Circus” (2003) and “In the Castle of the Flynns” (2002).

Art Words matter in this showcase of Japanese calligraphy at the Freer Exhibition of Buddhist sutras, though written in Chinese for a religion imported from India, shows how Japanese artists made ...

Calligraphy, or beautiful writing, has long been the most esteemed of the Islamic visual arts. The varied works of calligraphy on display—from practice alphabets to elaborately finished ...

And the man behind it is artist Ruben Malayan, who is working to revive the ancient style of writing. Check out his work.

Historical records suggest that writing began in Japan around the year 552 when political and religious emissaries from the Korean kingdom of Baekje arrived, equipped with handheld Buddhist sculptures ...

His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, has inaugurated the “Sacred Words, Timeless Calligraphy: Highlights of Exceptional Calligraphy from ...

"Brush Writing in the Arts of Japan", at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, is the perfect place to mourn the lost art of handwriting. Here, among the medieval Zen monks, the 11th-century ...

Bid now on Square Word: New English Calligraphy by Xu Bing. View a wide Variety of artworks by Xu Bing, now available for sale on artnet Auctions.

Long Before Emojis, the Picassos of Persian Calligraphy Brought Emotion to Writing The world’s first exhibition devoted to nasta’liq, a Persian calligraphy, is now on view at the Arthur M ...