Zarrinkhat (born 1894) lived over 85 years. He began in the art of calligraphy when he was 10 and took lessons from master calligrapher Mirza Taher Kateb Homayun. Most of the lithographs in those ...

Recently, students in Professor Semiha Topal’s “Introduction to Islam” class enjoyed a guest lecture over Zoom from Deniz Öktem-Bektaş, a calligraphy artist from Istanbul, Turkey. Professor Topal’s ...

The early work of an iconic calligraphy master of the Tang Dynasty (618-907) was found for the first time in an archaeological excavation, according to an announcement at a Friday news conference in ...

Artist Richard Wang holds a scroll of rice paper with Chinese calligraphy meaning birds sing, flowers smell fragrant in his home studio on June 26 in Niskayuna. Wang created Ink for Healing, a ...

An artist in the truest sense may pursue an essential masterpiece that can be seen as a result of his or her total dedication throughout life. That may be the reason master ceramic artists, for ...

Hasan Celebi, known as the "Master of Calligraphers," whose signature graces numerous mosques around the world, passed away at age 88 in Istanbul after receiving treatment for some time due to health ...

The Japanese Cultural Society of Maui President Brian Sato announced that Koki Takehara, a master of Japanese calligraphy, will share his talent on the stage of Queen Ka’ahumanu Center from 11 a.m. to ...

TEHRAN – An exhibition and master class on the art of Persian calligraphy was held at the L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University in Astana by the master Iranian calligrapher Hadi Ghasemi, with the ...

To teach Chinese calligraphy to beginners, it's best to have a painter as the teacher. At least that was the case for learners at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green. In a classroom on the ...