North Korea organized a special lecture for artists at the prestigious Mansudae Art Studio to demand their ideological allegiance amid concerns about private art sales and “capitalist thinking.

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In Chinese calligraphy, the white space (空白 kōng bái) is as important as the ink. It reflects the Daoist concept of emptiness — that true meaning arises in the balance between form and void, action ...

With its neon-lit streets, culinary delights and historical landmarks, Osaka offers a sensory feast for visitors.

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For all of The Phoenecian Scheme's color and flair, it couldn’t succeed without the rather simple portrait of fatherly love and daughterly care.

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NUMAZU, Shizuoka -- Members of the calligraphy club at a local high school performed a live calligraphy demonstration on giant "tanzaku" paper strips for the upcoming Tanabata star festival at a ...

On Saturday, June 21, the Cleve Carney Museum of Art and the McAninch Arts Center are celebrating this summer’s must-see exhibition, “Hokusai & Ukiyo-e: The Floating World, Artworks from the ...

Chinese calligraphy style evaluation and generation are important to the aim of cultural heritage preservation. Character skeleton extraction is a key preprocessing step and most existing algorithms ...

Sometimes calligraphy lovers want to generate a calligraphic plaque in style of some famous calligraphers, but some characters hadn't been written or were damaged in the long history of Chinese ...