News First Prev 55 56 57 58 59 Next Last August 31, 2015 El Seed bends the art of calligraphy and graffiti to create masterpieces El Seed, a Tunisian-French artist, who blends the art of calligraphy and graffiti, is painting the world, one city at a time. Born and raised in France to Tunisian parents, El Seed spent most of his time trying to comprehend the diversity of both cultures. In 2012, El Seed skillfully completed his largest art piece in Gabes, Tunisia. More August 28, 2015 Contemporary calligraphy work celebrates the conquest of Constantinople Contemporary art and traditional calligraphy mingle with each other in artist Fatma Zeynep Çilek's videoart work "Padişehir" currently on display at the 1453 Panorama Museum, the world's only full panoramic museum illustrating the conquest of Constantinople. More August 26, 2015 Egypt inaugurates its first museum for Arabic calligraphy Egyptian Culture Minister Abdel-Wahed El Nabawy inaugurated the Museum of Arabic Calligraphy at the Fine Arts Museum in Alexandria on August 22nd, 2015. More August 24, 2015 The Main Library exhibits a calligrapher’s elegant envelopes to himself Mailing a letter or postcard to oneself to collect the canceled stamp and postmark is not that unusual, but no one else has taken it to the extreme of Alan A. Blackman, 1125 Shrader St., San Francisco, CA 94117. Blackman is a professional calligrapher, and once a month for 36 years, his self-addressed envelopes arrived, as elegant as wedding invitations. More August 19, 2015 Calligraphy of Mao's martial musings are on display in Qinghai This year marks the 70th anniversary of the victory of China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the conclusion of World War II. In commemoration, a calligraphy work, quoting a series of speeches given by Chairman Mao Zedong in 1938, has gone on display in Qinghai province. More August 17, 2015 Adventurous Curiosities of a Calligraphy Artist Anina Rubio is a Manila-based creative designer, calligraphist, and an engineer by profession. “I worked in a corporate world for a few years (from IT to Marketing) but eventually shifted to doing what I am most passionate about – which is this,” she tells us. More August 12, 2015 A Japanese calligraphy exhibition opens in Perm The ‘Forest Where Tengu Lives’ project is open for visitors in Perm’s art residence. The exhibition of Japanese paintings and calligraphy opens on August 12th at 6:30 pm at 95a, Monastyrskaya street. The opening ceremony will feature traditional Balinese dances, the ritual dances of Thailand and a performance of Kyokushin karate by graduates of school 32 More August 10, 2015 Calligraphy lessons in Dubai Calligraphy is one of the highest art forms of the Arab world and a primary form of Islamic visual expression and creativity. Having spent years admiring the grace and elegance of this decorative writing at various galleries in Dubai, we tried our hand at Ductac’s Arabic Calligraphy and Islamic Borders class. More August 5, 2015 A calligraphy festival in Yekaterinburg The Sviter street-art gallery organizes a number of workshops and a calligraphy, lettering and scripts exhibition. More August 4, 2015 Calligraphy And Choreography Merge In These Magical Light Paintings French artist Julien Breton travels the world, combining dance, light, and photography to create stunning works of Arabic calligraphy that seem to magically hang in mid-air. More July 31, 2015 Overseas students learn calligraphy at Longmen Grottoes The overseas students of the international calligraphy class from Renmin University of China visited Longmen Grottoes in Henan’s city of Luoyang on July 26th. The visiting group completed a long scroll of calligraphy creation in front of the Vairocana Buddha at the Fengxian Temple. More July 24, 2015 A calligraphy school to be opened in Primorye Primorsky Regional Centre of Folklife Culture will be opening a calligraphy course for children and adults, the project organizers revealed in a statement to Primorskaya Gazeta. A new school of calligraphy for the young with advances history of writing study will be opened in Vladivostok. More July 22, 2015 A cursive history: Keeping calligraphy alive in Swat The history of calligraphy — the art of handwriting as a medium of expression beyond the meaning of words themselves — could be generically traced to the earliest found symbols. There was a time when carving on a rock was a utilitarian skill known to few, it eventually gave way to hieroglyphics in Before Common Era (BCE). More July 20, 2015 A 63-year-old man without arms writes calligraphy to make living Despite losing both his arms and one of his legs in a childhood accident, Egyptian Ahmed Hakim is a talented calligraphy artist. The 63-year-old was inspired to take up the ancient writing technique at school. Hakim started work by picking up odd jobs such as painting signs for shops. More July 17, 2015 A best calligraphy script contest in Dzerzhinsk A contest for the best calligraphy script started in Dzerzhinsk as part of The Most Reading City regional project.To apply for the contest you should calligraphically put write this selected passage from Maxim Gorky: “The book, perhaps, is the most complicated and outstanding marvel of all the marvels that humanity has created... More July 14, 2015 Citizens of Khabarovsk will learn about the arts of calligraphy, ikebana and origami The 2nd edition of the Japanese Culture Festival will be held in Khabarovsk on July 18th, 2015. Locals will have a chance to enjoy a unique atmosphere of Chinese festivities and to learn the arts of ikebana, calligraphy and origami. More July 8, 2015 Islamic art: An eclectic mix of calligraphy Calligraphy, one of the most ancient expressions of Islamic art, continues to be celebrated across the world. With the passage of time, the old traditional art has been revamped with the help of modern techniques, mediums and brush strokes, taking the revered Islamic art to a whole new level. This treatment of artistic expression can be seen at Grandeur Gallery, where 14 artists have displayed their unique takes on calligraphy. More July 3, 2015 Audience spellbound by Iraqi calligrapher’s masterpiece Truly a calligraphy masterpiece, the remarkable chef d’oeuvre of Iraqi artist Hakim Ghannam awed the audience at the Islamic and Arabic calligraphy exhibition being held on the sidelines of the 19th edition of the Dubai International Holy Quran Award. More July 1, 2015 The “The Noble Qur’an on the Blessed Month of Ramadan” exhibition to open in Kazan The exhibition to be held in the Museum of Islamic Culture will showcase the works of contemporary Iranian calligraphy artists from the collection of the Sareban private art gallery (Tehran) which belongs to the famous connoisseur and collector of Irani art Mohammad Sareban of Hamburg. More June 23, 2015 Paris’ Favorite Calligrapher Opens an Exhibit at Colette Everyone in fashion already knows Nicolas Ouchenir, at least by pen stroke. As Paris’ most in-demand calligrapher, he has thousands upon thousands of envelopes to his credit—and that’s just for this recent season’s events. On top of his expansive calligraphy business, Ouchenir is also a voracious reader, a passion that collides with his art in swirls, spatters, and excerpts for 20 or so “signature portraits,” now on show at Colette. (The opening party, meanwhile, will happen next week.) More June 22, 2015 Unique iron calligraphy in Anhui Zheng Shushan, a master of Wushan iron calligraphy, creates iron calligraphy works in his studio on June 16th, 2015. With a history of over 100 years, Wushan iron calligraphy is a specialty of the town of Wushan, China’s eastern Anhui province. More June 19, 2015 Master artist strives to preserve Tibetan calligraphy Tibetan calligraphy is an important part of the region's cultural heritage. It's been widely used in classic sutras. 48-year old Banjue has been interested in Tibetan calligraphy since he was a child. At the age of 17, he officially became a student of a master calligrapher and has been practising the art for decades. In 2014, Banjue became an inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage of the Tibet Autonomous Region. More June 17, 2015 The Art of Calligraphy and Beyond exhibition: What it took to be an artist in medieval India There was work everywhere for calligraphers in medieval India: in the courts of the great Mughals, the Ottoman Turks, and the Shahs of Iran, with whom cultural links were deep. It is this traffic and creative output that is on display at an exhibition titled 'Art and Calligraphy and Beyond' curated by Anamika Pathak and Zahid Ali Ansari, at the National Museum. More June 15, 2015 Winners of the calligraphy contest awarded in Primorye The Yat Russian calligraphy contest finished on June 5th, 2015 in Vladivostok with the opening of the exhibition of the works of contestants and the awarding ceremony. Representatives of the Far East branch of the Russian World fund that had supported the contest took part in the ceremony and presented the winners with valuable gifts, souvenirs and copies of the Russian World.ru magazine. More First Prev 55 56 57 58 59 Next Last