Art And Culture

Traditional singer, santur and setar player Hesamoddin Seraj presents a live performance Tuesday morning in Tabriz, capital of East Azarbaijan Province.

A satirical play about post-WW II Soviet Union written by Evgeny Lvovitch Schwartz is to go on stage at Molavi Theater in Tehran, September 24-October 12.

The comedy play “The Dragon”…

A short action drama of American-based Iranian filmmaker Maryam Pirband is to be screened at a festival in that country.

“Silence” will be shown in the competition section of the first…

Iranian Artists Forum opened on Sunday an exhibition of posters by young illustrators on the subject of war. The show features more than 100 posters by artists 20 to 30 years old, ISNA reported…

A photo exhibition by visual artist and photographer Amir Hossein Biparva is underway at O Gallery in Tehran until September 26.

The exhibit “Total Geometry” features 12 black and white…

Qoqnoos Publishing Group in Tehran has released “A Social History of Dying,” written by Australian author and sociologist Allan Kellehear, specializing in medical and public health and with…

Cinemas across the country are showing “A Heart for an Eye” directed by Rahim Toofan.  Written by Leila Nikzad, the film is about a poor plumber with three children. He gets involved in a…

Feature film “Orange Days” written and directed by Arash Lahooti will participate in the competition section of Zurich Film Festival slated for September 27-October 7.  According to the…

Few Tehran monuments are as amazingly beautiful as the Qasr Garden Museum, a once notorious prison that reopened in 2012 as a museum with an abundance of trees and green spaces.

A collection of ceramics produced in northwest Iran is on show at Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Smithsonian’s Museums of Asian Art, Washington DC.

The exhibition “Shaping Clay in Ancient…

Paintings of well-known Iranian artist of Armenian origin Yervand Nahapetian are on show alongside works of famous artist Manouchehr Sarram at Naghsh-e-Jahan Art Gallery in Tehran.

A solo exhibition of photography, sculpture and installation “The Rift” by visual artist Neda Zarfsaz is underway at Etemad Gallery in Tehran until October 2.

A series of black and white photographs of Lut Desert in Iran by Italian photographer John Randolph Pepper are on show at Aaran Art Gallery in Tehran until September 25.

Siavash Shaqaqi, the first Iranian pulmonologist owned a beautiful house that is now registered on the National Heritage List.

Located at No. 27, Qaedi Street, Saadi Avenue in downtown…

The latest film made by award winning director Asghar Farhadi is set to be screened at the 25th Austin Film Festival in Texas, October 25-November 1.

According to the festival website,…

Traditional musical ensemble Nastor won the second place at the 1st Maqom Art Forum in Shakhrisabz City, Uzbekistan, September 6-10.

The ensemble received the $7,000 prize as the second…

Vahid Jalilvand’s multi-award winning drama “No Date, No Signature” has been selected as Iran’s official submission to the 2019 Academy Awards in the best foreign language film category.

Khorshid Art Gallery in Tehran is hosting a multidisciplinary exhibition set up by a large number of artists who call themselves Nili Art Group.

A total of 32 artists are participating…

Dang Show folk band will perform selected songs in Vancouver, Canada, on October 19. Last year, the band went on a concert tour across Canada. According to Hamid Khosrobeygi, program manager of…

Works by eight Iranian artists are on view at the Algeria International Calligraphy and Illumination Art Festival, underway in El Madania Municipality in the capital Algiers.

It is the…

Gravures and drawings of Paris-based Iranian artist Marjan Seyedin, created between 2006 and 2018, are on show at an art gallery in the same city.

Galerie Documents 15 is the venue…

A book by Swedish Noble Prize winner Selma Lagerlof about the plight of a young violinist has been translated into Persian.

Veteran translator Soroush Habibi has rendered the novel “The…

A bestselling thriller novel by American authors Robert Ludlum and Philip Shelby is available in Persian.

The book “The Cassandra Compact” has been translated by Mohammad Ghassa’ from…

A book about the epitaphs at Takht-e Foulad historical cemetery in Isfahan will soon be released by the Center of Isfahan Studies and the Home of Nations, affiliated to Isfahan Municipality.

It is now the third year that Iranian and Danish archaeologists are involved in research about the transition from hunting-gathering to agriculture in Iran.