Art And Culture

The short film ‘Retouch’ written and directed by film critic and director Kaveh Mazaheri won one of the top awards at the 57th Krakow Film Festival in Poland, May 28-June 4.

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The Iranian puppet play ‘Count to One’ has won two awards at the 30th International Theatrical Festival Valise in Lomza, Poland, May 30-June 2.

A group exhibition of abstract paintings by 13 celebrated artists titled ‘Borderlessness,’ is slated for June 9-23 at e 1 Art Gallery in Tehran.

An introductory statement to the exhibit…

Commissioned by the Association of Iranian Collectors, Iran’s Coin House has recently issued a medallion in commemoration of Persian polymath Omar Khayyam (1048-1131).

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Violin player Niloofar Mohebbi has recently released her first instrumental album ‘From Covert to Infinity’.

Distributed by Taraneh Sharghi Cultural and Artistic Company, the album includes…

Magic, myth and symbolism in rugs woven by the Bakhtiaris, a southwestern Iranian tribe and sub-group of the Lur ethnic group, are elaborated in a book recently brought out by Islamic Azad…

The latest feature-length 3D animated film ‘The Secret of Butterflies’ directed and produced by Ali Tanahee is ready for release.

A total of 99 feature films are currently under production in Iran, according to statistics by Farabi Cinema Foundation based in Tehran.

A panel discussion on ‘Iranian Cinema; Past and Present’ was held at the 3rd Iranian Film Festival Zurich (IFFZ) in Switzerland on Monday.

The book ‘A Review of Foreign Works in TMOCA’ was unveiled in a ceremony at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art on Tuesday.

A comprehensive source for a number of the treasured…

Renowned theater director Mohammad Rahmanian will stage the play ‘Vancouverites’ at Clutch Theater in Vancouver on June 3.

The play is about the bitter and sweet stories of Iranians living…

A 2006 book on economic history and development studies written by three American professors has been published in Persian by the Tehran-based publishing house Rowzaneh.

An exhibition of historical photos from religious places opened Wednesday at City Photo Museum in Tehran.

A collection of photographs taken from religious places by photographers of the…

Avant-garde artist Rana Dehqan has presented her freakish art titled ‘Punishment’ at Tehran’s Delgosha Art Gallery.

The one-act play ‘Follow Me’ directed by theater director Kourosh Soleimani, on the issue of marital relations, will be staged from June 22 in Tehran.

Iranian-German economist Mohssen Massarrat has published in Persian his new theory on finance capitalism.

Massarrat, 75, is an emeritus professor of politics and economy at Osnabruck…

Stand-up comedian Hasan Reyvandi is set to perform a series of live shows in four Australian cities later this month.

He will perform in Brisbane on June 23 and in Perth on June 24. Then…

The 12th Street Theater Festival of Marivan in Kurdistan Province, has received 423 entries, according to the festival secretariat.

Slated for September 8-12 in Marivan city, the entries…

A year after auteur Abbas Kiarostami’s death last July, Close-Up Film Center in London will celebrate the art of his cinema by screening some of his rarely seen early films from June 5-19.

Theater director and actor Ali Reza Mehran has directed the play ‘Dead End, underway at Paytakht Theater in Tehran.

Written by theater director and playwright Saman Nasseri, 36, the social…

The film ‘Atomic Heart’ directed by Ali Ahmadzadeh and produced by Seyed Amir Seyedzadeh will be screened across the country from May 31.

The movie is finally coming to domestic cinemas…

Virtuoso pianist Fereydoon Nassehi will perform a piano recital on July 11, at the Niavaran Cultural Center in Tehran.

A poster exhibition by artist Mahdi Fatehi opened at ‘Cité internationale des arts’, an art foundation, in Paris on Monday.

The exhibit shows a selection of posters, some of which have won…

Another detective novel ‘Coma,’ in the ‘mask’ series translated by Abbas Agahi, the prolific translator of French works, is now available in Persian.

The Persian edition the 1965 noir…

The latest album by Iranian traditional vocalist Ali Reza Ghorbani, 44, will be released soon.