Syngman Rhee, the authoritarian president of South Korea throughout the 1950s, received his advanced degrees at Harvard and Princeton. But, in his youth (Rhee was born in 1875), he had a traditional ...

Two complementary exhibitions at Asia Society Museum explore Islamic art's quintessential art form: calligraphy. Traces of the Calligrapher: Islamic Calligraphy in Practice, c. 1600-1900 and Writing ...

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 ...

Handwritten or printed, the couplets rendered in the calligraphic style have been an essential part of the festive customs associated with Chinese New Year celebrations.