Art And Culture

Veteran literary translator Qasem Son’avi, 78, has brought out a large collection of short stories by French writers.

‘Dinner Under the Chestnut Trees and Other Stories from French Writers…

Nine projects from Iran were among the winners of the second 2A Asia Architecture Award which were announced at a ceremony in Vienna last week.

The top medal in the field of culture and art at the 7th International Congress of Professor Yalda Foundation was awarded to Professor Jalal Khaleghi Motlagh for his global contribution to…

A Middle-earth love story by ‘Lord of the Rings’ author J. R. R. Tolkien will be published a century after it was first penned in 1917.

The UK publisher HarperCollins will release the book…

Amirkabir University of Technology in Tehran will host the 2nd international Polymer & Color Scientific Photography competition (PCSP) next month.

‘Behind the Windows’, a play about routine and the daily grind is on stage at Senoqteh Theater Complex in Tehran.

The play written by author, actor and playwright Mohammad Charmshir, 56,…

Literary translator Abdollah Kowsari, 69, has brought out the Persian translation of five seminal works by Euripides (480-406 BC), a tragedian of classical Athens.

Kowsari’s book is titled…

A painting exhibition by Iranian artist Mehrdad Jamshidi featuring a selection of his realistic paintings opened at Shokouh Art Gallery in northern Tehran on  October 21.

It is the…

Several Iranian movies will be participating in international festivals across the globe including Tirana International Film Festival in Albania (TIFF), Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival in…

Fifteen months since its inauguration, the Book Exchange Center in Tehran has received over 150,000 books, said its director, Mohammad Bahrinian.

Counterfeit scandals are all the rage - or at least, art authenticators and government agencies are getting better at spotting them. In light of this, the government in South Korea is taking steps…

The Institute of Contemporary Art Development and the Iranian Embassy’s cultural counselor in Germany, have jointly organized a music and narration performance ‘Epic Twins: Rostam and Siegfried’…

Kazune Iwasaki, a former student at the University of Tehran, studying santur, the Iranian hammered dulcimer, is planning to introduce Iranian culture to Japanese people when he returns home.

Iranian painter and sketch artist Bahram Dabiri, 65, condemns violence and terrorism in his exhibition titled ‘Deshne dar Dis’ (Dagger on Platter).

At Tehran’s Golestan Gallery, Dabiri…

The 21st Christie’s Dubai, part of Christie’s 250th anniversary celebrations, was held in Dubai on Tuesday, October 18, where 39 Iranian artworks out of the 41 auctioned pieces were sold.

A collection of articles written by German sociologist, philosopher and critic Georg Simmel (1858-1918) has been published in Persian by the Tehran-based Donya-e-Eqtesad Publications.

Celebrated novelist Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, 75, gave his expert views on ‘Stroll With Horse’, a play about a guerrilla couple in 1975 in Iran, on the final days of the show.

Written and…

Acclaimed Iranian cartoonist and graphic designer Kambiz Derambakhsh has give an unusual title to his upcoming exhibit.

Derambakhsh, 74, has organized his exhibition titled ‘I’ve Set…

The Persian dubbing of the Iranian feature animated movie ‘The Elephant King’ directed by Hadi Mohammadian has started. The film which is still in the production stage will also be dubbed in three…

Iran will participate in the 61st International Belgrade Book Fair, slated for October 23-30 in Belgrade, Serbia, as the guest of honor and will introduce Iranian culture and literature to a wider…

After a hiatus of over one year, the Cultural Center of Book City Institute is resuming its fiction writing course, this time focusing on ‘Genre Fiction’.

The novel writing course is to be…

There will still be more books than you could ever read, but visitors to this week’s Frankfurt Book Fair will also be invited to don virtual reality goggles, visit an interactive classroom and…

Iranian musicians performed on the last day of the 60th International Festival of Contemporary Music, also known as Biennale Musica, in Venice, Italy, on October 16.

The joint movie production of Iran and Germany ‘Paradise’ directed by Ali Atshani won three top prizes at the Chelsea Film Festival in New York.

Iran’s information scientists are to debate ‘Freedom of Information in Civil Rights’ at their second annual conference.

The National Library of Iran, located at Tehran’s Haqqani Highway…