Indian Museum hosts Brahmi calligraphy exhibition exploring 'Virtues of Bharat'

Kolkata's Indian Museum is showcasing a unique exhibition, 'Mā Lipi: Virtues of Bharat in BrāhmÄĞ Calligraphy,' featuring ...
The Malta Independent

Chinese writing exhibition brings ancient China to Malta

Following successful presentations in Paris, New York, Cairo and Canada between 2024 and 2026, the international exhibition ...

Typographers Have Spent a Thousand Years Trying—and Failing—to Render Arabic Properly

How do you justify Arabic text? It’s a simple question, but—as cataloged in a lengthy interactive post on the blog La Vita ...

Preserving the past: Calligrapher Ken Brown's copy of Declaration of Independence finds a home at OSU

Standing in the Peggy V. Helmerich Browsing Room at Oklahoma State’s Edmon Low Library, Ken Brown realized his life had come ...

Exhibition on Sanskrit, Siddham script held in Beijing

Beijing, Jun 30 (PTI) An exhibition showcasing Sanskrit calligraphy and the Siddham script, highlighting the shared cultural and civilisational heritage of India and China, was held in Beijing, ...

Young Archie competition 2026: Australia’s portrait prize for child artists – in pictures

Running alongside the Archibald prize, the Young Archie invites artists aged between five and 18 years to submit portraits of people who are special to them ...
Psychology Today

Mourning the Loss of Cursive Handwriting

Like many, I lost the ability to write fluid cursive, and my kids don’t care to learn it either. What does the loss of this ...

Mastering the Art of Script Lettering

Many people believe that perfect script lettering is a gift. They are wrong. It is a discipline. Achieving absolute precision with a paintbrush takes hours of deliberate practice, muscle memory, and ...
Asharq Al-Awsat on MSN

Historic Jeddah’s Red Sea Museum Showcases Rare Manuscripts from Ancient Hajj Sea Voyages

Asharq Al Awsat The Red Sea Museum in Historic Jeddah stands as a prominent testament to the historic relationship linking ...
Ancient Origins

Deciphering the Enigmatic Issyk Inscription of the Golden Man

In 1969, archaeologists excavating the Issyk kurgan in southeastern Kazakhstan made a discovery that would become a national ...
unr.edu

Writing effective descriptions

Descriptive writing is a powerful tool that adds life and depth to your writing. Effective descriptions breathe life into your ideas and put the reader in the scene where those ideas live. If I want ...