Invented in China around 300 B.C.E, the bamboo brush was originally intended solely for traditional calligraphy and ink painting styles. When grouped together with the inkstone, inkstick, and xuan ...

NEW YORK – 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. "Out of ...

Noted thinker, renowned master of art form, Kang Youwei, celebrated at international event, Song Mengxing reports. The magical, even mystical world of Chinese calligraphy - the art of converting ...

“Can you draw me a Labubu?” a child eagerly asks Vivian Ng at a bustling Chinese New Year roadshow. The 33-year-old, known for her inventive take on Chinese calligraphy, smiles warmly as she ...

One of the things about China that foreigners find most fascinating and mystifying is Chinese characters, hanzi. The thousands of ideograms are beautiful and completely different from what an ...

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 ...

On Sept. 28, the famed calligrapher and educator Tian Yingzhang died at the age of 74. Arguably the best-known calligrapher in contemporary China, millions of Chinese learned Tian’s calligraphy style ...

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 ...