Art And Culture

Popular Iranian pop singer Mohsen Yeganeh is to hold his summer concerts in Australia, Denmark and Sweden.

In Melbourne for the first time, Yeganeh will perform August 5 in the Australian…

‘Robinson and Crusoe,’ a play written by Italian playwrights Nina Dintrona and Giacomo Ravicio, translated and directed by Iranian theater director Ali Reza Koushk Jalali, received the first prize…

To mark the International Day of Peace, the 5th Art for Peace Festival will be held at the Iranian Artists Forum in Tehran, September 12-22.

The event will include artworks, in the fields…

‘Economics of Good and Evil,’ a book humanizing the most public and powerful of the social sciences, written by Czech economist and lecturer Tomas Sedlacek  is now available in Persian.

Iran is present at the Expo 2017 Astana, the Kazakh capital, with diverse cultural programs.

Arvand Free Zone Performing Troupe from Iran will present a performance by two giant puppets at…

The ongoing exhibition ‘100 Works, 100 Artists,’ showcasing works by 257 contemporary artists at Tehran’s Golestan Gallery has exceeded earnings compared to its previous edition, according to the…

Jeihoon bookstore in Tehran is to host two meetings on the meaning and worth of life.

Slated for August 7 and 21, the meetings are more like introductory sessions of logotherapy, a school…

Following a successful performance at Isfahan’s Roudaki Hall last month, Mastan music ensemble will perform another concert at the same venue on August 4.

Led by composer, lyricist and…

A collection of strange sculptures by installation artist Aseman Oraee are on display at Saless Art Gallery in Tehran.

‘Existence’ (in Persian: ‘Mojoudiat’) is Oraee’s ongoing exhibition.…

The Iranian play ‘Lamborghini’ written and directed by film and theater actor Siamak Safari is on stage at the newly-opened Shahrzad Theater Complex in central Tehran.

The Great Swindle (in original French: ‘Au revoir la-haut’), a novel by globally known French crime writer Pierre Lemaitre, 66, is rendered in Persian by  translator Parviz Shahdi and…

The 18th Traditional & Ritual Theater Festival, to be held August 30-September 6 in Tehran, has selected 21 plays for its lineup.

The 6th International Urban Film Festival opened at the Art Museum Garden in Tehran on Sunday.

Prominent Iranian actress Fatemeh Motamed-Arya was honored at the opening ceremony for years…

A celebrated Iranian actor couple will play an Armenian play at Tehran City Theater in August.

Acclaimed actor Farhad Aeesh, 64, together with his spouse Maedeh Tahmasebi, 60, will play ‘…

The music ensemble ‘Navaye Seymareh’ from Lorestan Province will perform on August 4 at Tehran’s Vahdat Hall.

Led by composer, singer and lyricist Mehran Ghazanfari, 45, the ensemble, based…

The film ‘Autumn Memories’ directed by Ali Fakhr Mousavi, will be screened by the Art & Experience Cinematic Group in autumn.

‘Autumn Memories’ is a joint product of Iran, Ukraine and…

The 12th Razavi Theater Festival opened in Bojnourd, North Khorasan Province, on Sunday.

A memorial stamp to commemorate the event was unveiled at the opening ceremony in the mausoleum of…

Historian and author Jalal Dilmaghani has released ‘History of Parthia based on Coins,’ an account of this obscure part of the past with the help of coinage.

A number of op-art serigraphs or silkscreen prints from the works of Hungarian-French painter of geometric abstractions Victor Vasarely (1906-1997) are on display at the Persian Gulf Museum on…

‘Human Acts,’ a book by the winner of the 2016 Man Booker Prize for fiction, will soon be released in Persian.

Iranian author and translator Ali Qane, based in Qazvin, has completed the…

There are over 200 photos of pairs of siblings from around the world on display at Ebne Sina Cultural Center in Tehran.

Installation artist, stage director and performance artist Arash…

Roudaki Hall in Tehran is to host the second round of ‘A Few Nights,’ a music program featuring traditional, classical and folk players performing in various schools of the art.

The first…

Four film directors from Iran are in the list of the best 25 filmmakers of the 21st century (so far) selected by Metacritic website.

Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of media…

On the screens for eight days, Mehran Modiri’s first feature film ‘5 PM’ has set a new box office record in Iranian cinema.

The film’s 8-day sale grossed 30 billion rials ($800,000) while…

Pars University, a Tehran based independent institution of higher learning in art and architecture, is organizing a tour of Science and Technology Central Library.