calligraphy
Heritagenews
Saudi Arabia-led campaign puts Arabic calligraphy on Unesco heritage list
Proposal was put forward by 16 Arabic-speaking countries
Stolen artnews
Stolen Mao Zedong scroll worth $300m found cut in half after being resold for $65
Hong Kong police have arrested three men in relation to a $645m heist that included calligraphy by the Communist leader and other revolutionary art and ephemera
Obituariesnews
Kamal Boullata—Palestinian master of abstract art and Arabic calligraphy—dies, aged 77
Jerusalem-born artist who lived 50 years in exile was a pioneer of the hurufiyya movement and one of the first to write about Palestine's art history
Exhibitionsnews
eL Seed brings his brand of contemporary calligraphy to London for first UK show
French-Tunisian artist’s 'tabula rasa' paintings at Lazinc will challenge “deep-seated preconceptions” about Arabic script
Collectorsarchive
The co-founder of Yahoo is showing part of his Chinese calligraphy collection in San Francisco
Interview with collector Jerry Yang
Forgeriesarchive
Abundance of sophisticated fakes in China causes widespread worries
“The forgeries business is in full swing”