For many, Chinese calligraphy is the world's most favorable form of art. I can remember the time when I was a preschooler, my grandfather, Chen Teh Tseng, had taken me to one of his home residences at ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Large public exhibits of ancient Chinese calligraphy are rare in the United States, as are major shows that can be appreciated by kids as well as adults, novices as well as experts.

On Monday afternoon, as part of the opening ceremony for Kroon Hall’s latest art exhibition, “Three Artists’ Journey,” Yale’s Vice President of Global Strategy, Pericles Lewis, moderated a panel to ...

Duanmu Liyin, dean of the Funing Painting and Calligraphy Academy. Duanmu Liyin is dean of the Funing Painting and Calligraphy Academy and a member of the Chinese Calligraphers Association. His works ...

Calligraphy is the art of beautiful handwriting, characterized by carefully executed lettering or script. It involves the skilled and artistic manipulation of pen, brush, or other writing instruments ...

For millennia, adepts of calligraphy in China and connoisseurs worldwide have regarded it as the summit of the arts of Asia. "Out of Character: Decoding Chinese Calligraphy" at the Asian Art Museum ...

Calligraphy, literally "beautiful writing," has been appreciated as an art form in many different cultures throughout the world, but the stature of calligraphy in Chinese culture is unmatched. In ...

Chinese calligraphy has always been more than simply a tool for communication, incorporating as it does the element of artistry for which the practice is still valued in an age of ballpoint pens and ...

Calligraphy, or shufa, is one of the four basic skills and disciplines of the Chinese literati, the other three being painting (hua), playing a stringed musical instrument (qin) and board games (qi).

Chinese calligraphy, which has been widely practised in China, was inscribed in the list of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by Unesco in 2009. There are several main categories of Chinese ...