Part of the scroll of Emperor Qianlong's Southern Inspection Tour. [Photo/VCG] CANBERRA -- A unique exhibition, the first in Australia, will explore the grand historical sweep of Chinese art and ...

Xu Bing, "Square Word Calligraphy - The Song of Wandering Aengus Poem by William Butler Yeats" (1999), ink on paper. Installation view of Summoning Memories: Art ...

What do you think of when you think of traditional Chinese ink painting? To start with, ink on paper and silk. Then, century upon century of graceful, languid calligraphy and dreamy landscapes and ...

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 ...

The painting hanging at the entrance of the Cantor Arts Center’s remarkable new exhibition “Tracing the Past, Drawing the Future: Master Ink Painters in 20th-Century China” is an oddly compelling ...

A joint exhibition of 50 Chinese and Japanese calligraphy and ink painting works went on show in Tokyo recently. Some 100 artists and officials from both countries were present for the exhibition.

NEW YORK — It’s hard to break from the past. Even under the Chinese Cultural Revolution, which sought to smash the “Four Olds” of customs, culture, habits and ideas, the tradition of calligraphy was ...

Xia Cheng Bei, or the “Stele for Xia Cheng” (circa AD170), attributed to renowned calligrapher Cai Yong, is an Eastern Han dynasty stele, a form of ancient monument, describing the family history and ...

Most of us think of calligraphy as an elegant form of writing, grand for wedding invitations and formal announcements, but just writing. “Calligraphic Abstraction,” at the Seattle Asian Art Museum ...

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 ...