Art And Culture

An exhibition of calligraphy works written in Nastaleeq script opened at Mojdeh Art Gallery in Tehran on November 4.

Titled ‘Essence of Soul’, the exhibit includes a total of 25 artworks…

The Lesson, a play written by Romanian-French playwright Eugene Ionesco (1909-1994), will be staged at Iranian Artists Forum (IAF) in Tehran by theater director and photographer Parinaz Ale Agha,…

The 22nd Press Exhibition opened at Imam Khomeini Grand Mosalla in Tehran on Saturday in the presence of President Hassan Rouhani and the newly-appointed Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance…

Hundreds of art exhibitions are held throughout the year in Tehran but not all are marked with a grand opening in which thousands attend. On Friday, November 4, Shirin Art…

Theater director, playwright, puppet maker and stage designer Zahra Sabri, 49, opened an exhibition of her stage puppets at the International Puppet Center in Tolosa, a Spanish town, on Saturday,…

A seven-year-old South African girl has become one of the youngest published authors on the continent and is an inspiration for other children with a short novel she wrote largely in secret, “…

Iranian Academy of Arts is to host the 2nd Specialized Exhibition of Art Books from November 12-17.

Concurrent with the 24th edition of the national Book Week (November 14-21), the…

Mansour Pourheidari, the veteran Iranian football coach, manager and former player of Esteghlal football club passed away on November 4 in Tehran at the age of 71.

At his latest exhibition, painter Nasser Ramezani, 61, depicts his birthplace Anzali Port in northern Gilan Province, the way he wants it to be.

Ramezani’s second solo painting exhibit in…

The official opening of the Abu Dhabi branch of France’s Louvre museum has been postponed to 2017 due to pending construction work, the latest setback for the long-delayed project, Reuters…

Poet Mohammad Reza Sohrabinejad, 62, is compiling a collection of well-known Persian proverbs and expressions, in which he explores the roots and reasons behind each famous dictum and utterance.…

The Iranian film ‘Maat’ (literally opaque) directed and produced by Saba Kazemi won the Special Abbas Kiarostami Award at the 40th International Sao Paulo Film Festival which wrapped up November 2…

Following the high sale of most of the films screened across Iran in the first half of the Iranian calendar year (started March 20), a number of new movies on screen these days have also proved…

A retired electrician who kept nearly 300 Pablo Picasso artworks in his garage for almost 40 years told a French appeal court Monday that the artist’s widow may have wanted to hide the works from…

The 19th edition of ‘50,000 Exhibitions in 50,000 Schools’ was inaugurated at Yarjani Vocational School in Tehran, District 19, on November 1 as part of the national Book Week in Iran.

The 13th edition of the International Conference on Public Relations (ICPR) will be held on January 8, 2017 at Tehran’s Olympic Hotel.

‘Maritime Heritage of Iran in Chinese Ports’, a research book on history of shipping, commerce and cultural interactions between Iran and China, has been brought out by the publishing house of…

The ‘Meeting of West Asian Countries, General Directors of Performing Arts’ officially convened on October 31 at Ferdowsi International Grand Hotel in Tehran.

“Theater can help us exchange…

The next edition of the Global Nomadic Art Project (GNAP) will be held in Iran in January 2017.

Iranian nature artist Ahmad Nadalian, the secretary of the 2017 edition, said the project…

The Persian translation of the book ‘Women in the Shahnameh’ by Professor Jalal Khaleghi-Motlagh, an expert in Ferdowsi’s epic book Shahnameh (Book of Kings), has been published in Iran.

The 22nd Press Exhibition opens on November 4 and will officially run from November 5-11 at Imam Khomeini Grand Musalla (prayer ground) in Tehran.

A collection of sculptures and paintings inspired by the existential concepts of German philosopher and thinker Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) is being showcased at Tehran’s Seyhoun Art Gallery.…

Stephen King, the master of horror and dark psychological horror literature, has written a children’s book.

On November 22, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers will publish ‘…

A group exhibition of illustrations titled ‘Extraordinary Creatures’ is underway at Maryam (Saint Mary) Art Gallery in Tehran which features artistic creations of imaginary creatures rooted in…

Iranian theater troupe ‘Crazy Body’ is organizing Iran’s first festival of performance art in spring 2017.

Yaser Khaseb, 35, who heads the group, told Honaronline that the festival titled ‘…