Art And Culture

The Iranian movie ‘Born in 1987’ directed by Majid Tavakkoli has started its international debut from Canada, hitting screens last week in Montreal and Toronto.

The first feature film by…

The Iranian 3D movie ‘A Hell of a Wedding’ has won its second international award at its second presence in a festival abroad.

Participating in the 8th edition of 3D Stereo MEDIA…

Kara Orchestra, led by Iranian conductor Bardia Kiaras, 37, will stage a performance with wind instruments on December 28 at Tehran’s Vahdat Hall.

The Iranian folk music band Rastak has released a new album titled ‘Mian-e- Khorshid-Haye Hamisheh’ (Forever Among the Sun) in two audio and video editions.

The album is named after a…

Veteran author of children’s books Abdolmajid Najafi was honored at the Tabriz branch of the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (IIDCYA), on December 21.

The Persian translation of Mithridate, a tragedy by Jean Racine (1639-1699), one of the three great French playwrights of the 17thcentury, has been brought out by the Tehran-based Parseh Institute…

A solo photo exhibition by Iranian photographer Kiarang Alaei is underway in Paris until December 29.

Titled ‘Semi-Permeable’, the photo collection introduces social interactions and…

Children’s resilience to tragedy is highlighted in UNICEF’s Photograph of the Year for 2016.

UNICEF awarded the first prize of the UNICEF Photo of the Year 2016 contest to Iranian…

A solo sculpture exhibition by veteran artist Mansour Tabibzadeh is underway at Ace gallery in Tehran.

Titled ‘Maximal’, the exhibit showcases 15 large sculptures made of different types of…

At the recent auction held by the British Auction House Phillips in London, a painting by Iranian painter Azadeh Razaghdoost, sold for double the base estimated price.

The painting, oil and…

Malek National Library and Museum Institution, affiliated to Astan Quds Razavi charity foundation in the holy city of Mashhad, capital of Khorasan Razavi Province, has added an English version to…

Iranian young pop singer Babak Jahanbakhsh will have two performances in England next month.

His first time in England, on January 15, 2017, he will perform in Manchester and on Jan. 21 he…

The second Iranian National Conference on Digital Library (INCDL) will be held on February 22, 2017, at the Allameh Tabatabai University (ATU) in Tehran.

The conference is being organized…

‘Richard III Will Not Take Place,’ a play written by Paris-based Romanian-French playwright, poet and journalist Matei Visniec, 60, is underway at Mowlavi Theater in Tehran.

It opened on…

Well-known Bollywood actress Dia Mirza who has starred in the movie ‘Salaam Mumbai’ in the lead role next to Iranian actor Mohammad Reza Golzar arrives in Tehran today.

The Indo-Iranian…

Iranian pop singer, songwriter and composer Reza Sadeghi will take his European concert tour to Sweden, Germany and the UK in February 2017.

Sadeghi will perform in Hamburg, Germany, on…

Graphic designer and illustrator Narges Zayyani, 31, has collected 95 of her book cover designs for an upcoming solo exhibition in Tehran.

The exhibition titled ‘Chehregan’ (Visages) will…

‘Comics, Manga, and Graphic Novels: A History of Graphic Narratives,’ an exploratory book on the origins of comics and graphic novels, has been translated into Persian by Mehrdad Garousi.

On the occasion of ‘Shab-e-Yalda’ (Yalda Night), the longest night of the year (December 20) which is celebrated nationwide in Iran, a ceremony was held at the Rasam Arabzadeh Carpet Museum in…

The Iranian short film ‘Alan’ has been selected to take part in the international competition section of the 39th Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, due from February 3-11, 2017,…

Calligrapher Ahmad Mazadi, 45, will showcase 26 of his works at Tehran’s Shokouh Art Gallery from Friday, December 23.

Mazadi’s exhibition titled ‘Today’s Exercise’ will run through January…

A webinar on ‘Big Data in Libraries’ will be conducted by Seyyed Mehdi Taheri, head of the Central Library of Allameh Tabatabai University in Tehran and faculty member.

The managers of seven galleries in Tehran, Aria, Elaheh, Day, Golestan, Mah-e- Mehr, Haft Samar and Vali, have for the 9th time, come together to organize a group exhibition of diverse works in…

The play ‘The Kitchen’ directed by Mohammad Hassan Majooni is on stage at Paliz Theater in Tehran.

Written by the British dramatist Arnold Wesker (1932-2016), it is a production of the…

The first volume of a trilogy written by Iranian author Yousef Alikhani has been translated into English and brought out by Candle & Fog Publishing house.

The Persian book ‘Ghadam…