Art And Culture

The 10th prize-giving celebration for best independent documentary films, an annual event known as “Iran Documentary Independent Award Ceremony,” organized by the House of Cinema, is slated for…

Toronto International Film Festival unveiled 36 short films that make up the international element of this year’s Short Cuts section on Thursday and in the list is “Umbra” a short film by…

Azadi Tower in Tehran will hold three performances of the play “Ruthless Killer Hasse Karlsson” from August 11-13.

The theatrical show is based on a namesake play written by Swedish…

Abolhassan Davoodi’s latest comedy “Centipede” is now Iran’s all-time best seller movie as it has taken in over 211 billion rials ($2.1 million), breaking the record of previous holder “The…

A collection of old posters collected by architect, painter, graphic designer and art researcher Mohammad Nasseripour is on display at Iran’s Museum of Graphic Design in Tehran.

Easter Island’s indigenous authorities have asked Chile’s government to help them recover a unique monumental Moai statue removed 150 years ago and now kept in the British Museum in London.

Italian maestro Damiano Giuranna is to hold a series of workshops on violin, viola and orchestral performance.

According to Honaronline.com, the workshops will be held at Roudaki…

Arasbaran Cultural Center in Tehran is paying homage to veteran painter and graphic designer Mohammad Bahrami in an exhibition of his selected works. The exhibition opens Thursday with a…

Six theater groups from five countries are to perform at the 17th Mobarak International Puppet Theater Festival in Tehran, August 23-29.

Two troupes from France will attend and Croatia,…

Raj Gallery is to have a single screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller-cum-drama “The Birds” on August 11, Tiwall.com wrote.

Justin Kurzel’s 2015 movie “Macbeth” is to have one screening followed by a review session attended by film director and critic Ali Tadayyon at God Father Café on August 10, Tiwall.com wrote.

War drama “The Lost Strait” by Bahram Tavakoli hit the cinemas on Wednesday.

The story is set during the last days of the 1980-88 Iraq-Iran war, when a group of Iranian soldiers, of…

Well-known musical scores by leading composers of the 20th century will be performed in a classical piano and violin recital at Roudaki Hall of Tehran on Thursday.

Violinist Arash…

Irish Museum of Contemporary Art in Dublin is to host “Sunset, Sunrise”, a retrospective of works by Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, who with an artistic career spanning more than six decades is…

 Among the treasured items of Negarestan Garden Museum is an anthropological collection of figurines made by late self-taught sculptor Jahangir Arjmand.

The 26th edition of the annual “100 Works, 100 Artists” exhibition and sale, underway at Golestan Art Gallery in Tehran, made over 3 billion rials ($30,000) in the first four days.

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Iran’s National Orchestra will perform on September 21 in Tehran, featuring old pieces by ballad composers Ali Akbar Sheyda (1843-1906) and Aref Qazvini (1882-1934). Vahdat Hall will host the…

A musical puppet show by director Alireza Nassehi on the worsening water crisis will be performed at the 17th International Mobarak Puppet Festival in Tehran, August 23-29.

Sotheby’s reported on Monday a $57.3 million net income in the second quarter of 2018 - a decrease of $19.6 million, or about 26 percent, in comparison to the same period in 2017, when the…

South of Tajrish Square, amidst the curvy streets and alleyways of the upscale Elahieh neighborhood, lived a great personality of great accomplishments.   

Mahmoud Hesabi (1903…

Geometric designs, irrigation systems and network construction of Persian gardens and their influence on art is the subject of a scholarly meeting organized by the Tehran-based Herampey…

The play “The Lower Depth,” one of the famous works of Russian writer Maxim Gorky is to be staged at Niavaran Cultural Center in Tehran from August 12.

Written in 1902, the play is a…

The mystery thriller novel “The Chalk Man” by British author C. J. Tudor has been translated into Persian by Narges Jalalati and published by Tandis Publications, Mehr News Agency reported.

Five subway stations in Tehran are offering passengers in near permanent hurry ethnic music by singers and bands from across the country for two hours each day, 4-6 p.m.  The program is…

Mohit Café in Tehran is to host the second edition of Sound of Sidewalk (in Persian: Sedaye Piadero), a festival of street music groups, organized by Sazoghalam.ir, a music news website.