Art And Culture

Iranian painter Azadeh Razaqdoust’s first solo exhibition in the UK is underway at Sophia Contemporary Gallery in Mayfair, London.

The exhibit presents 15 recent paintings by Razaqdoust,…

Iran cinema won the best documentary feature film award at the 10th annual Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) in Brisbane, Australia. The awards ceremony was held November 24.

Iran which had…

‘Endgame,’ a one-act absurdist play by Irish playwright, theater director, novelist and poet Samuel Beckett will be staged by theater director Mohammad Mehdishahi next month.

The works of the late avant-garde artist Jazeh Tabatabai (1931-2008) have been brought together for an exhibition at Shahrivar Gallery in Tehran.

In cooperation with art collectors, friends…

Four Iranian illustrators are among the winners of the Golden Pinwheel International Young Illustrators Competition which were announced last week during the Shanghai International Children’s Book…

London’s Design Museum opens the doors of its new South Kensington home near some of London’s most famous museums including the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Natural History Museum, and the…

Creativity is a hot topic today. We as a society are fixated with asking, “How are creative sparks ignited? And can these sparks lead to new ways of looking at the world around us?” Well, Oxford…

Four Iranian artists are among the winners of the 2016 Center of the World (COW) International Design Festival in Ukraine.

‘Le Sagouin’, a bold, harrowing novel by French writer, critic, poet and journalist Francois Mauriac (1885-1970) is now available in Persian.

Veteran translator Davoud Navabi, 81, has…

The play ‘Harvey’ written by the American playwright Mary Chase and directed by Melodi Aramnia is on stage at Iranshahr Theater in Tehran.

Written in 1944, the play is about an affable man…

The Fajr International Music Festival, Iran’s most prestigious music event, is to be held from January 11-20, 2017.

Tehran will host the 32nd edition of the Fajr music event one month early…

The Momayez Cultural Artistic Institute will pay homage to Morteza Momayez (1935-2005), the renowned pioneer of graphic design in Iran, at a ceremony on November 25 at the Iranian Artists Forum (…

Visual artist and graphic designer Ebrahim Haqiqi, 67, will open his sixth calligraphic painting exhibit on Friday, November 25, in Tehran.

The renowned Iranian ‘maddah’ (eulogist) Salim Moazzenzadeh-Ardebili passed away on Tuesday, November 22, at the age of 80.

He died of heart disease in his hometown of Ardebil in the…

The Persian translation of the book ‘I’m Not a Terrorist, but I’ve Played One on TV,’ written in English two years ago by the famous Iranian-American comedian, actor Maz (Maziar) Jobrani, has been…

The latest collection of works by Bandar Abbas photographer Morteza Niknahad is scheduled to go on display in Toronto in February 2017.  

The collection, titled Big Fish, will be…

Iranian film producer Manoochehr Mohammadi left for Australia on Monday, November 21, where he will receive the 10th FIAPF Award for Outstanding Achievement in Film in the Asia Pacific region.

Prolific theater director, playwright and film maker Mohammad Yaqoubi is staging his realistic play ‘The Moon in Water’ at Tehran’s Baran Theater.

The play opened November 13 and will run…

The fantasy/adventure book ‘Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children’ written by the American author Ransom Riggs has recently been translated into Persian and will soon be published by Parian…

An original drawing from ‘Explorers on the Moon’, widely regarded as one of the two best Tintin adventures, sold for a record $1.65 million at a Paris auction on Saturday.

The third edition of the Khayyam International Exhibition of Photography opened on Monday (Nov. 21) at Mellat Cineplex in Tehran.

The exhibition features a collection of selected photos…

Iranian performance artist Yaser Khaseb won the top place at the THESPIS International Monodrama Festival.

Khaseb, 35, head of theater troupe ‘Crazy Body’, received the First Place Award at…

The Iran-Italy joint theater production ‘Fathers, Mothers and Kids’ written and directed by Arash Abbasi will be staged at Tehran City Theater in December.

A joint project of Iranian Moj…

Art gallery owners in Iran will have their own guild by the end of the current fiscal year in March 2017, according to the prominent artist Lili Golestan, 71, owner and artistic director of…

A Frida Kahlo painting that has never been publicly exhibited and whose whereabouts had been a mystery will be auctioned on November 22 at Sotheby’s in New York.

‘Girl With Necklace’, a…