Qiu Zhijje, “30 Letters to Qiu Jiawa” (2009) (Image copyright the artist, and via the Metropolitan Museum of Art) The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s first full-on foray into the world of contemporary ...

For the downright dazzling opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, world-famous film director Zhang Yimou utilized the form of a basic painting scroll as the quintessential backdrop for his ...

Xu Bing, "Square Word Calligraphy - The Song of Wandering Aengus Poem by William Butler Yeats" (1999), ink on paper. Installation view of Summoning Memories: Art ...

Born in Shanghai in 1959 into a family of intellectuals, Feng Xiao-Min began studying Chinese ink painting and calligraphy at an early age. Nearly thirty years later, he moved to Paris to pursue an ...

Chinese ink landscape paintings have rarely been about depicting landscapes. Realistic depictions of craggy mountain ranges with jutted peaks or numinous landscapes shrouded with mist are always ...

Check out Lark Mason III’s appraisal of Chinese ink & silk paintings in North Carolina Museum of Art, Hour 3. Antiques Roadshow is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on ...

These artists channel elements of Chinese painting, calligraphy and Buddhism through their needles in a new form of ‘poetic ...