Art And Culture

The book ‘Half Man Horn’ written by Seyyed Ali Shojaee has been translated into Chinese and published in China while the German translation of his ‘What if the Snowman Won’t Melt?’ has been…

A painting exhibition of an overview on modern Iranian art opened on Friday in Tehran, featuring the works of veteran Iranian painter of Armenian descent Garnik Der Hacopian.

The exhibition…

With his sculpture exhibition ‘It Is Autumn’ Behdad Lahouti, 39, has tried to draw the attention of visitors to the less-noticed beauties of their surrounding world.

It is Lahouti’s 6th…

A machine-vision algorithm can tell a book’s genre by looking at its cover. This paves the way for ‘AI’ systems to design the covers themselves.

The idiom “never judge a book by its cover”…

On the occasion of the World Philosophy Day (November 17), the Institute for Research in Philosophy (IRIP) in Tehran is hosting a meeting of prominent philosophers and researchers in philosophy.…

Asghar Farhadi’s award-winning film ‘The Salesman’ has started international screening from France. It was released in 300 French cinemas on November 11.

The film will gradually be shown in…

The Society for Appreciation of Cultural Works and Dignitaries, also known as National Heritage Society, will hold a commemoration ceremony for the late French philosopher and theologian Henry…

China is increasingly engaging with countries with mainly Muslim populations through cultural exchanges as its government champions the creation of a new, economic “Silk Road”.

The final chapter of the Routledge Companion to Twentieth-Century Philosophy has recently been published in Persian.

Well-known Italian author and theater director Eugenio Barba is planning to stage his new play ‘The Tree’ in Tehran in February 2017, said Mehdi Shafiee, director general of the Department of…

Kayhan Kalhor, acclaimed Iranian composer and master of classical Kurdish and Iranian traditional music, accompanied by Turkish folk musician, composer and singer Erdal Erzincan will perform a…

An exhibition of Iranian and Arab modern art opened on Tuesday, November 8, at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMoCA).

Titled ‘The Sea Suspended’, the exhibit showcases 40 artworks…

The ‘Overlook Film Festival’ will open in April 2017 at Oregon’s Timberline Lodge, which was used for the exterior setting of the Overlook Hotel in Stanley Kubrick’s famous horror movie ‘The…

The veteran expert in children’s literature Touran Mirhadi, 89, passed away on November 8, in a Tehran Hospital.

On September 17, Mirhadi suffered a stroke and went into coma. She was is…

A collection of exquisite men’s rings will be showcased at Mess Negar Gallery in Tehran.

With a mission to introduce and promote Iranian handicraft, the gallery is holding a week-long…

A work by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch will highlight Sotheby’s fall auction of impressionist and modern art.

The auction house expects the painting ‘Girls on the Bridge’ to sell for more…

The 33rd Tehran International Short Film Festival (TISFF) was officially inaugurated at Charsou Cineplex in downtown Tehran, on Tuesday, November 8.

According to the festival website, the…

Three decades after his play was shelved due to an aerial attack by Iraq, Iranian actor and theater director Akbar Zanjanpour plans to restage it at the same venue.

Two Iranian documentaries are present in the international competition section of the 35th Jean Rouch International Film Festival in Paris.

A solo exhibition of calligraphy paintings by the renowned Iranian artist Ali Shirazi is underway at Abaci Sanat Gallery in Istanbul.

The exhibit presents contemporary Persian art of…

Leading authors have joined activists marching in protest against wide-ranging cuts to cultural services including, libraries, museums and galleries.

The Research Institute of Cultural Heritage and Tourism (RICHT), affiliated to Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization (ICHHTO) has completed the first stage of an…

The current tide of information via social networks will ultimately “drain away,” media expert Bijan Moqaddam predicts.

When a new phenomenon emerges in the market, people start to wonder…

Although the 29th Tehran International Book Fair (TIBF) was held at its new venue Shahr-e-Aftab (Sun City) in south of Tehran earlier in May, the site is not host to the annual 22nd Press…

The non-governmental Institute for Research on the History of Children’s Literature, in cooperation with Iran Book House, both based in Tehran, is organizing a round table on the promotion of…