NEW YORK, December 16, 2008 – Islamic art scholars Oleg Grabar, professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study, and Glenn D. Lowry, director of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, engaged in a ...
Calligraphy is one of the most revered artforms in Islamic culture and Habibulloh Solih is one of its leading practitioners. With the title of “master calligrapher,” the Uzbek artist’s work is ...
Malik Mukhtar, a self-taught calligraphy artist from North Kashmir, is working to revive the traditional art form in the ...
This exhibition Islamic Calligraphy in Practice and its companion exhibition,Writing the Word of God: Calligraphy and the Qur’an, explore Islamic art’s quintessential art form: calligraphy. In the ...
Introduction -- The edged pen -- The Roman alphabet -- Greek and Cyrillic -- Hebrew -- Arabic -- Indic scripts -- Tibetan -- The East Asian brush -- Chinese -- Japanese -- Korean -- Armenian and other ...
FARGO — Visual artist, calligrapher and teacher Anne Kaese believes there’s an artist in everyone, no matter their skill, talent or experience. “Being an artist is what we all are. Some of us use ...
KUALA LUMPUR: Amid the bright red banners and prosperity couplets of Chinese New Year lies an art form that demands far more than decorative flair. Chinese calligraphy, practitioners say, is built on ...