For those who are curious, what this actually means is that the word culture had a 15% year-over-year increase in look-ups on M-W’s website, which is more than any other word in 2014.

From visual art to an interactive audio listening station, the new exhibition shines a light on the art of beautiful writing.

Geisha, the quintessential icons of Japanese culture, are famous for their prowess in several traditional arts ...

In 2008, the country's Ministry of Culture founded Granshan, an international typographic contest for non-Latin typefaces like Cyrillic, Greek and Arabic. Granshan is the Armenian word for script.

Dubai Culture unveiled details about several exhibitions in the biennale, starting with the Dubai International Arabic Calligraphy Exhibition at the Etihad Museum. This exhibition, featuring 90 ...

Second-grader Brenda Perez, 8, tries to write her name in Japanese calligraphy while classmate Cristien Mejia, 8, watches. Their teacher at Alexander Elementary School, Valorie Fish, spent three ...

Dubai Culture and Arts Authority (Dubai Culture) is presenting a series of innovative artworks that highlight the modernity of calligraphy at the ‘Calligraphy Redefined: A Perspective in Play ...

A nation, a workplace, an ethnicity, a passion, an outsized personality. The people who comprise these things, who fawn or rail against them, are behind Merriam-Webster's 2014 word of the year ...

Time magazine has its person of the year (it was the Ebola health workers for 2014 ), and likewise, Merriam-Webster, the company behind the trusted English dictionary, has its word of the year ...

This Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2014 photo shows the word “culture” in the Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, in New York. Merriam-Webster has named “culture” its 2014 word of the year.