Art And Culture

The Persian version of the book ‘Epic and Sedition: A Case of Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh’ written by the British author Dick Davis and translated by Sohrab Tavoosi, has been recently published by…

Actor and theater director Mohammad Hassan Majooni will stage the 1900 play ‘Three Sisters’ written by Russian writer and playwright Anton Chekhov (1860-1904), at Paliz Theater in Tehran, June 6-…

Association of Iranian Painters in Tehran has created “a 360-degree virtual tour” of an online display of paintings featured at the fifth edition of its ‘Research Expo’ series.

Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof’s ‘A Man of Integrity’ won the top prize in the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival, beating a diverse international selection of 17 other…

The play ‘From the Basement to the Roof’ written by Mahin Sadri and directed by Afsaneh Mahian will have two performances at the Athens and Epidaurus Festival in Greece, June 8-9.

A…

The 30th International Film Festival for Children and Youth is slated for June 30-July 6 in the tourist city of Isfahan.

Secretary and director of the festival is film producer and festival…

A 1921 satirical compendium by Hungarian novelist and short story writer Lajos Nagy (1883-1954), originally titled ‘Keptelen Termeszetrajz’ (literally ‘unnatural nature’) is now available in…

The book ‘Honar’ (Persian equivalent for ‘art’), which reflects the trajectory of Iranian art from the 1950s till today, was unveiled on Friday in London.

A short film from Iran ‘AniMal’ (in Persian: Heyvan), won the second prize of the 20th Cinefondation competition at the 70th edition of Cannes Festival held from May 17-28.

Celebrated musician Hossein Alizadeh was named the recipient of the second Asian world music award on Friday in South Korea.

Organized by the World Music Center (WMC), the biannual event…

The Iranian documentary ‘Poets of Life’ directed by Shirin Barqnavard has won the Special Jury Award at the 14th Green Film Festival in Seoul (GFFIS) in South Korea.

The Iranian feature-length animation ‘Release from Heaven’ has won the ‘Animation That Matters Award’ at Cannes Film Festival, France.

Screened on Animation Day, May 23, the Iran production…

Avaye Rood ensemble from Tehran will perform an exclusive concert at Rudolf-Oetker-Halle in the city of Bielefeld, Germany on May 27.

The central branch of the Book City Institute in Tehran has planned late-night programs during the first week of the fasting month of Ramadan (starts May 27), the ninth month of the Islamic…

The International Federation of Photographic Art (FIAP) will open its official center for exhibitions today (May 27) at the premises of Persian Idea Art Gallery in Tehran.

The Iranian documentary ‘Owsia’ (Darkened Water) directed by Alireza Dehghan has won the best film award at the 14th International Science Film Festival (SCinema) in Australia.

Playwright, translator, theater director and actress Sahra Ramezanian, 34, has brought on stage a play in which Cervantes’ character Don Quixote takes up his sword and lance in the virtual space…

The late auteur Abbas Kiarostami’s last film ‘24 Frames’ was premiered on May 23, in the 70th Anniversary Events section of the 2017 Cannes Film Festival in France.

After watching the two-…

Researcher in social philosophy, editor and translator Nasser Taqavian has one chapter left to complete his book on the Theory of Communicative Action.

The latest music album sung by celebrated classical and Persian traditional vocalist Salar Aqili, 39, is to be unveiled on May 25 in Tehran.

‘Narrator of Love’ (in Persian: Ravi-e Eshq),…

A town will be built in Shiraz, Fars Province, which will serve as the location to shoot the huge movie project ‘Cyrus the Great,’ said veteran actor Dariush Arjmand, 72, on Monday.

Theater director Fariborz Karimi is to stage two plays at the upcoming European theater festivals.

Karimi has prepared ‘I Can’t Imagine Tomorrow’ and ‘Medea’ for festivals in Europe, Mehr…

A major work of early Armenian historiography, originally published in 1999 by Liverpool University Press, UK, is now available in Persian.

‘The Armenian History Attributed to Sebeos,’ a…

The celebrated US-based Iranian musician Lily Afshar will come to Iran in summer to hold two master classes and a solo concert.

Her two-day master class in Tehran will be organized by…

Thirty photographs taken 130 years ago by Nasser al Din Shah of the Qajar dynasty, who ruled in Iran from 1848-1896, will go on display from today, May 23, for a week at Golestan Palace complex in…