But I haven’t eliminated calligraphic texting altogether. I send calligraphic messages to friends for special occasions—to extend a bit of myself when I cannot be there in person.

An art museum in this west Japan city that houses about 6,000 ukiyo-e prints and two national treasures has appointed 10 ...

When I first encountered the work of the architect and painter Anthony Candido, it was moving—or rather, the dancers whose costumes he had splashed with ...

Pusey’s cursive marks sit in that zone where writing becomes drawing and vice versa.

An exhibition at the Getty unleashes the dynamic character of Holbein’s portraits in ways I’ve never seen before.

The Chinese painting style called Xieyi literally means “writing ideas,” and marries the freehand techniques of calligraphy, line drawing and shading. It would seem odd, then, to let a machine ...

On display this month are works by an enigmatic late graffiti painter, who was only posthumously recognized as a world-class artist.

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Islamic Calligraphy and the Illustrated Manuscript The Arabic script contains a full range of letters of manipulable size and shape, making it fertile ground for calligraphic ornamentation. Islamic ...