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 ...

Brice Marden, “Etchings to Rexroth” (1986), print; sugarlift, aquatint, openbite, drypoint, and scraping. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Purchase through a ...

Jerry Yang was at San Francisco's Asian Art Museum the other day, giving Mayor Ed Lee a tour of "Out of Character: Decoding Chinese Calligraphy," a smashing show drawn from the Yahoo co-creator's ...

TORONTO — A centuries-old calligraphy album that was once part of the Chinese emperor’s royal collection and found in a Canadian basement has fetched more than $1 million at a Canadian auction, many ...

“Flying Flowers and Scattered Snow” (飞花散雪), a title captured from an ancient seven-character Tang dynasty poem, was performed in the courtyard of the Harvard Art Museums by the Chinese calligraphy ...

“We know of only five scrolls of this heroic size by the artist Wen Zhengming [1470-1559] and this is the only known example with a personal poem,” says curator Stephen D. Allee. Freer and Sackler ...

Calligraphy was once China’s highest art form—then the Communist Party tried to erase it. Now, under Xi Jinping, it’s making a comeback. At Sotheby’s in Hong Kong, a rare copy of the Orchid Pavilion ...

The Hong Kong Museum of Art has received an staggering gift of more than 350 Chinese paintings and calligraphic works from the nonprofit foundation Chi Lo Lou Promotion, founded by the philanthropist ...

Wen Fong, a renowned art historian and alumnus who spent more than four decades on the Princeton faculty, died of leukemia Oct. 3 in Princeton, New Jersey. Fong was the Edwards S. Sanford Professor of ...

Malaysian contemporary artist Long Thein Shih has turned to traditional Chinese brush painting to capture the spirit of the fiery horse, this year’s zodiac animal. KUALA LUMPUR: What began as ...