Paintings by an artist or artists of the Tosa School, "Scenes and Calligraphic Excerpts from The Tale of Genji" (Japan, Momoyama [1573–1615] or Edo period [1615–1868], early 17th century), pair of six ...

For millennia, adepts of calligraphy in China and connoisseurs worldwide have regarded it as the summit of the arts of Asia. "Out of Character: Decoding Chinese Calligraphy" at the Asian Art Museum ...

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 ...

Mohamed Zakariya sat perched at a long table, his head bent over a small piece of paper. As admirers peered over his shoulder, he grasped his handmade pen and slowly produced the rounded, flowing ...

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