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In the rarefied environs of the Upper East Side, the bibliophilic Grolier Club qualifies as an alternative exhibition space. A small nonprofit, it is as devoted to the margins of [...]

The Iraqi-born artist Hassan Massoudy, who is based in Paris, draws on his classical training in calligraphy to create vibrantly colored oversized letters evocative of traditional Arabic script. Having formerly [...]

What a shock to wake up one morning and find armed men, who spoke no language you knew and looked like no people you'd ever seen, roaming the streets of [...]

Rachid Koraichi, who has been widely exhibited internationally for decades, is only now having his first New York solo exhibition. Born in Algeria in 1947, he came from a family [...]

CHICHESTER, England -- The British artist, poet and critic David Jones was something of a prodigy. In 1909, at age 14, he won a place at Camberwell College of Arts [...]

Matthias Buchinger must have been some kind of genius. A draftsman, calligrapher, magician and musician, he traveled all over Northern Europe to entertain kings and aristocrats as well as hoi [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDHuman beings may excel at making things, but destroying them is equally a specialty. The second skill has given the history of art many tantalizing mysteries, remnants of cultures [...]

SYDNEY -- In a serene Chinese garden in the heart of the city earlier this month Sun Qinglin danced across a large square of cardboard secured to the ground with [...]

Charles L. Dodgson wanted to be remembered for his mathematical innovations as an Oxford don rather than his colorful personal life and 1865 book, ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland,'' but despite [...]

The Chinese conceptual artist Xu Bing often gets his inspiration from language and the printed word. In the soaring glass atrium of the Morgan Library & Museum three years ago, [...]

Calligraphy has always been the premier classical art of the Islamic world, and it comes in many forms, some practical and workaday, others subtly expressive, reserved for religious texts and [...]

Chinese calligraphy can seem daunting to viewers who are unfamiliar with the characters of this ancient art form. Some, stymied by the language barrier, tend to think about the physical [...]

Last month Jeffrey Deitch resigned as the director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Although he won't step down immediately, the art world is abuzz with rumors about [...]

The photographer and historian Jeff Brouws has spent hours sifting through bins of old photos for sale, looking for signs of American railroads in the backgrounds. Tiny segments of track [...]

When China's last emperor, Pu Yi, was exiled from the Forbidden City, he and his brothers had already managed to smuggle more than 1,300 works of art and calligraphy out […]

The state Historical Museum has put on show a small selection of manuscripts from state collections in Moscow offering a glimpse of a past age and a beautiful, elegant and incredibly old calligraphy. The collection consists of bound manuscripts Korans, poetry, histories, popular stories and accounts of pilgrimages and description of travels.

In the early 1960's Sylvan Barnet and William Burto, two young teachers of English literature a few years out of graduate school at Harvard, began to buy antique Japanese and […]

Ethan Cohen Fine Arts 37 Walker Street, TriBeCa Through tomorrow Wang Dong Ling, now in his 50's, is one of many Chinese artists who have experimented intensively with merging Western […]

There's no more stimulating patch of art turf in Manhattan than the Islamic wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It may not feel that way at first. Lights are […]

In China, painting, poetry and calligraphy were the dream team of art: the 'three perfections,' they were called. Any truly evolved person was adept at each. And discussion about any […]

THIS town tends to generate hot air of one kind or another year round, and the weather can get spectacularly toasty, even in a coolish summer like this one. Luckily, […]

Islamabad, August 25, 2011 (Pakistan Observer): To mark the holy month of Ramazan, an exhibition of Islamic calligraphy titled Quran and Peace by prominent artist Muhammad Azeem Iqbal opened here [...]

Summary: The Gallery at Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar is very pleased to present the work of Manar al-Muftah as part of the annual series Qatar Now at the opening [...]