Art And Culture

The first exhibition of ‘Slavs and Tatars’ art group is currently underway at ‘Pejman Foundation: Argo Factory’ in Tehran.

The play ‘I Can’t Imagine Tomorrow’ written by American playwright Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) and directed by Iranian theater director Saeed Shishegar is currently on stage at Jamshid…

Tehran Game Convention (TGC) will be held on July 6-7 at the state broadcaster IRIB’s International Conference Center in Tehran.

The two-day event is organized under the auspices of…

The play ‘Seven Days From Tir of 1360’, written by Kamran Shahlaee, and directed by Shahlaee and Mohammad Larti, is on stage at Tehran City Theater since June 28, and deals with the sad event of…

An Iranian short animation series titled ‘Hidden Lives’ has been released online in the past three months.

Directed by animator Edris Armaghani and produced by PAJ Animation Studio, 30…

A group exhibition of photos selected by photographer Mehrdad Afsari opened at Mohsen Gallery in Tehran on Friday.

Titled ‘Implicit Signifiers’, the exhibit includes works by three young…

Accomplished writer Houshang Moradi Kermani published his first story 47 years ago. Since then he has written many novels and short stories worthy of acclaim, stories that have become very popular…

The 24th Historical Literary Award of the Mahmud Afshar Foundation will be conferred on French linguist and Iranologist Gilbert Lazard, on July 4.

Ten Iranian cineastes are among the new 774 members from 57 countries which the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), known around the world for its annual Academy Awards, or The…

Prolific painter Adel Younesi is exhibiting his work in Iran after eight years.

The 13th solo exhibit of paintings titled ‘Bentasia’ will display 11 of Younesi’s artworks in different sizes…

The play ‘If You Were to Die,’ by postmodernist French novelist and playwright Florian Zeller, 37, will go on stage in Tehran from July 23.

A jazz album ‘Amiira,’ produced by a famous trio of international musicians has recently been released by the Tehran-based Hermes Records.

A solo exhibition featuring artworks by Iranian artist Iman Safaei opened on Friday at Shirin Gallery in Tehran.

Titled ‘Alley’, the exhibit is Safaei’s fourth individual show which…

The Hosseinieh Ershad Public Library in Tehran is to host a meeting on ‘Data Studies’ on July 1.

It is the 10th meeting on information science and knowledge organized by the library,…

Iranian composer and orchestra conductor Maziar Heidari has been placed among 2017 RBC (Royal Bank of Canada) Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Award winners.

The 30th International Film Festival for Children and Youth to be held in Isfahan has announced the jury for the international animated movies competition.

A new Persian translation of Goethe’s Faust is available. It is the result of four years of hard work and rework by the young Iranian translator Saeed Jowzi.

The magnum opus of German…

The environmental art exhibition ‘Soul of the Earth’ will open at Art Center Gallery in northern Tehran on July 13.

Artworks at the event, including different fields of visual art, are part…

The biography of renowned contemporary Iranian artist Bahman Mohassess will be unveiled at Shirin Gallery in Tehran on Friday, June 30.

In its first performance this summer, Iran's National Orchestra (INO) will stage a concert on July 1-2 in the tourist city of Isfahan.

Conducted by veteran composer Fereydoun Shahbazian, 74…

'Mama Yerma,' a free adaptation of the famous 1934 play 'Yerma' by Spanish poet and dramatist Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936), will be staged at Poti International Festival of Regional Theater…

The Iranian film ‘Yellow’ directed by Mostafa Taqizadeh has won two awards at the 20th Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF), June 17-26.

Iran’s sole entry in the event, it received…

After a three-year hiatus, Iran is participating in the 2017 World Architecture Festival (WAF) in a special award category.

The WAF is slated for November 15-17 in Berlin. The venue of the…

A photo book collection of Afghan workers photoshopped against surreal landscapes by Bahman Kiarostami, son of the late film auteur and photographer Abbas Kiarostami, has recently been published…

The Iranian architecture company ‘Arsh 4D Studio’ has won an award at the 2017 Prix Versailles for their Arg Shopping Mall project in Tehran.

At a ceremony held at the UNESCO headquarters…