Art And Culture

The Hosseinieh Ershad Public Library in Tehran is to observe the International Mother Language Day (IMLD), February 21, with a topical exhibition. 

A selection of books on linguistic…

The feature film ‘7:05 P.M.’ which was made by Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Mehdi Asgarpour in 2009 in France will finally be screened in Iran after an eight-year hiatus.

The production is…

The Institute of Culture, Art and Architecture in Tehran will host a scientific seminar on February 22 to debate the views, thoughts and concepts of German author, art theoretician and perceptual…

The three-volume ‘Great Events in Religion: An Encyclopedia of Pivotal Events in Religious History’ has been recently published in English by ABC-CLIO, a publishing company headquartered in…

Thirty people representing different Iranian ethnic groups will join the 600 km march from Shiraz to Bushehr to observe the National Persian Gulf Day on April 30.

The feature film ‘Daughter’ directed by the acclaimed filmmaker Reza Mirkarimi added four more awards to its collection from the 33rd Mons International Love Film Festival in Belgium.

The…

A collection of drawings by acclaimed Iranian cartoonist and graphic designer Kambiz Derambakhsh, titled ‘Pictorial Tales’ (in Persian: Dastanhaye Didani), is to be unveiled on February 20, at the…

Iran men’s national wrestling team claimed the Freestyle Wrestling World Cup for the sixth time in a row Friday in Kermanshah, Iran.

Iranian wrestlers Friday defeated the United States…

A retrospective of Arapic Baghdasarian (1939-1985), an Iranian-Armenian graphic designer, caricaturist, film director and translator, titled ‘Marked Designer’ opened at Tehran’s Gallery A on…

The Iran-Afghan joint film ‘Parting’ directed by Navid Mahmoudi is showing in a limited number of cinemas in some American cities.

‘One Evening in Late Autumn,’ a play written by Swiss author and dramatist Friedrich Durrenmatt (1921-1990) is underway at Drama Hall in Tehran until March 3.

The play was translated into…

A short story by Iranian author, translator Mohammad Tolouei was published in the British newspaper Guardian on February 14.

The 6th Expo of Iranian Contemporary Artists opened on Friday at Tehran’s Laleh Art Gallery.

The gallery has hosted earlier editions of the exhibition and in the successive years seen an…

A painting exhibition by the artist couple Hojjat and Mina Shakiba will open at Shokouh Gallery in northern Tehran on Friday, February 17, featuring depictions of Qajari women and landscapes.

‘Spies,’ a novel written in 2002 by English author and dramatist Michael Frayn, 83, is now available in Persian.

The Persian translation of the psychological novel by Kayhan Bahmani, 45,…

The exhibition ‘Graphic Design of Iran (1)’ opens today, February 16, at the Iranian Museum of Graphic Design in Tehran, with a fresh look at the works of Iranian graphic designers in the 1940s…

‘The Good, the Bad, the Gaudy’, the debut film by comedy screenwriter Peyman Qasemkhani, has started Norouz (Persian New Year) screenings in Iran.

The International Conference on Indo-Persian Studies will be held on February 19-20 at the Shahidi Hall of Iran’s Academy of Persian Language and Literature in Tehran.

The event will be…

The display of artworks from the treasured collection of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMoCA) scheduled for last December at the Gemalde Galerie, an art museum in Berlin, was temporarily…

The mayor of London will join some of the leading names in British film at a free premiere screening of the Iranian Oscar-nominated film ‘The Salesman’, whose director was affected by Donald Trump…

The Islamic Architecture Center at the Art Bureau (Howze Honari) of the Islamic Development Organization in Tehran is organizing a photo contest on heritage in architecture titled ‘Identification…

Leev Theater Group, led by actor and theater director Hassan Majooni, will stage ‘Three Sisters,’ a play written in 1900 by Russian writer and playwright Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) in spring.

Cello virtuoso Yo-Yo Ma and his ensemble Silk Road, in which Iranian Kamancheh virtuoso Kayhan Kalhor is a member, won a Grammy award for ‘Sing Me Home’ album on Sunday. 

The 59th…

Actor, screenwriter and director of TV series Iraj Tahmasb, 57, best known for co-creating the popular puppet character ‘Kolah Qermezi’ (Red Hat), has brought out a collection of his stories.

A play titled ‘Five Finger Exercise’ written by Peter Shaffer (1926-2016), the English writer of several award-winning plays, is now available in Persian.

Two translators, Ali Reza…