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 ...

Jerry Yang was at San Francisco's Asian Art Museum the other day, giving Mayor Ed Lee a tour of "Out of Character: Decoding Chinese Calligraphy," a smashing show drawn from the Yahoo co-creator's ...

Decoding Chinese Calligraphy,” a new exhibition at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco (through Jan. 13). (The exhibition is scheduled to go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 2014.) ...

The video is just a "warm-up" for "Out of Character: Decoding Chinese Calligraphy," an exhibition which opened Tuesday and aims to help beginners and specialists alike engage more deeply with the ...

The museum’s new exhibit “Out of Character: Decoding Chinese Calligraphy” draws on 40 masterworks, as museum director Jay Xu describes them, from Yang’s collection of more than 200 works.

Out of Character: Decoding Chinese Calligraphy, which closes this weekend at San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum, is a sprawling, gorgeous arrangement of fine historic Chinese calligraphy from.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is currently showing “Out of Character: Decoding Chinese Calligraphy,” composed mostly of 15th-16th century samples drawn from the collections of successful ...

There are novice-friendly features like "decoding cards" that visitors ... a recreation of the kind of Chinese salon in which calligraphy was sometimes painted and displayed.

Calligraphy, wrote scholar Chiang Yee ... Yang started collecting calligraphies after a Chinese friend suggested that, as someone immersed in technology, it would be interesting to collect ancient ...

There are novice-friendly features like “decoding cards” that visitors ... a recreation of the kind of Chinese salon in which calligraphy was sometimes painted and displayed.

Drawn from the impressive collection of Akiko Yamazaki and Jerry Yang (a co-founder of Yahoo), this show is a great primer for an art form that’s often overlooked in the West. Once you learn to ...