Once a practical way to transcribe, calligraphy has evolved into a fine art. As the practice we recognize today spread across East Asia, countries like China, Japan, and Korea developed their own ...

The ultimate hope, he says, is for the show to shift people’s perceptions of calligraphy, from a traditional art form that ...

particularly in printmaking and calligraphy.” Born in Chongqing, China in 1955, Xu grew up in Beijing where he studied printmaking at the Central Academy of Fine Arts. One of his best-known works, ...

Calligraphy is the art of lettering. Throughout history, calligraphy has been part of formal documentation such as scripture, ...