This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. INDIANAPOLIS – Modern brush calligraphy is a ...

“Seeing important artists using letters and words in their artwork, it was time to study how they can still produce such new and interesting work from an old art form, the Iranian calligraphy. In ...

Calligraphy is derived from the Greek words “Kallos” meaning “beauty” and “Graphein” meaning “to write”. Thousands of years ago, there were no fancy pens or pencils in ancient civilisations like Egypt ...

BEIRUT: Forced to flee Lebanon at the height of the Civil War, Lebanese artist Noha Balaa Sinno now sees Arabic calligraphy as a link to her cultural heritage and her past, and uses it as a way of ...

KANNUR: Thankaraj V V, a resident of Kozhummal in Kannur district, has created more than 1,000 calligraphy designs in ...

Why did you choose the art of calligraphy? Art was my favourite subject and it was evident since my young age that I will pursue a career in it. The fascination about letters and the interest in ...

Timothy O’Neill is an expert calligrapher whose work can be found in collections worldwide. Some of his projects include commissions presented to world leaders - Presidents Clinton and Obama, Pope ...

Karim Jabbari still remembers how painful it was to walk down the street with his family as a child and see his neighbors turn away. “No one was willing to talk to us in public,” he says. Jabbari’s ...

Steered by women and social media, Arabic calligraphy is seeing a resurgence in South India as an art form, beyond religious texts like the Quran ...