Art And Culture

Actor and theater director Majid Mozaffari’s latest theatrical play ‘The Representative of the Nation’ opened at Iranshahr Theater in Tehran on May 14.

Based on the late Serbian playwright…

A meeting on manuscripts and methods in production of “critical editions” has been organized by Fanni Publications in Tehran on May 24.

Titled ‘Manuscript Copies and Textual Criticism,’ the…

A collection of short war stories ‘A Vital Killing’, by Iranian writer Ahmad Dehqan, will be introduced at a meeting in September at SOAS University of London in the UK, the only institution of…

Cinema halls across Iran will host filmgoers till morning during the fasting month of Ramadan (starting on May 27) similar to the previous years.

However, spokesman of the Guild Council for…

The ninth International Fair of Friendly Cultures opened in Mexico City at the weekend, where the Institute for Development of Contemporary Art headed by Mehdi Afzali, represents Iran.

This…

The first decade of the 1979 Islamic Revolution is portrayed at a photo exhibition by veteran photojournalist Kaveh Kazemi.

‘Revolutionaries: the First Decade’ is the title of the photo…

‘Miss Sara’s Will,’ a play written by prolific screenwriter and playwright Naghmeh Samini, 44, is underway at Iranian Artists Forum (IAF) in Tehran.

The 50-minute play is brought on stage…

The ensemble Baroque Music Atelier of Tehran is to perform a number of compositions by German baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) at the University of…

An exhibition of illustrations by a group of Iranian artists is underway in Brescia, northern Italy.

Titled ‘Racconti Illustrati: Abitare fra Realta e Desiderio’ (Illustrated Tales: Living…

Traditional band Bamdad Music Ensemble from Iran will participate in two music festivals in Germany and Estonia in late May and early June.

“Following the invitation of the two festivals,…

An exhibition of illustrations in underway at Laleh Art Gallery in Tehran which shows artworks created by renowned Italian artists.

The 1932 detective novel ‘Chez les Flamands,’ translated into English as ‘The Flemish House’ by Belgian writer Georges Simenon, was recently released in Persian.

The chilling novel is one…

Taraneh Baran Art Gallery in Tehran has organized a public memorial service for the late Iranian calligrapher Reza Mafi (1943-1981).

A total of 30 sketches from historical buildings and textures in Iran, drawn by architect Mohammad Hassan Kia Momeni, is on display at Niavaran Cultural Center in Tehran.

Iran voted on Friday in an election, the result of which will decide the direction of an economy still recovering from years of crippling sanctions—a state of affairs revealed in the charts below…

70th Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday, May 17, in the resort city of Cannes, France.

Farhadi, whose film ‘The Salesman’ won two awards at last year’s edition, described the festival as a “…

Second poster of Iranian filmmaker Majid Majidi’s upcoming film ‘Beyond the Clouds’ was revealed on Thursday, at the Cannes Film Festival.

Well-known actor Shahid Kapoor’s younger brother…

The play ‘On the Dock’ written by French playwright Alain Gras and directed by Iranian theater director Mohammad Ali Mahboubi is currently on stage at Gandom Theater in Tehran.

The last book ‘Philosophy as Cultural Politics,’ by Richard Rorty (1931-2007), the late professor of Comparative Literature at Stanford University in the US, is now available in Persian.

Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof represents Iran at the Un Certain Regard competition section of the 70th Cannes Film Festival, May 17-28, with his latest film ‘Lerd’ (A Man of Integrity).

The group photo exhibition titled ‘Accumulation’ is underway at Silk Road Gallery in Tehran.

Salome Souzanchi, Samira Davarfara, Sahar Mokhtari, Farzin Foroutan and Armin Abdi are the…

Argentine actor Ricardo Darin has joined the Spanish couple Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem in the hotly anticipated, currently untitled, movie to be directed by the acclaimed Iranian filmmaker…

Tehran Philharmonic Orchestra will perform a repertoire of classical pieces on May 24-26 at Vahdat Hall in Tehran.

The concert will be staged in collaboration with acclaimed violinist…

The play ‘The Tempest’ written by the celebrated English playwright William Shakespeare (1564-1616) and directed by Iranian theater director Mazyar Seyedi, will be staged at Tehran’s Honar (art)…

The works created at the 8th Tehran International Sculpture Symposium (ended May 14) will remain at Milad Tower in Tehran until June 21 for public viewing.

“After June 21, the works will…