Art And Culture

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  • ‘Lost Days’, an album by two celebrated composers Nasser Cheshmazar and Mohammad Mirzamani will be in the market soon.

    The album features Alireza Qazi as singer in eight vocal tracks out of…

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  • An estimated 3,000 public libraries will be opened for the students in rural areas by the end of the current fiscal year in March 2017, according to Hamidreza Kaffash, the deputy for educational…

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  • Asghar Farhadi’s ‘The Salesman’ has been selected as Iran’s nominee for the best foreign language film at the 2017 Oscars.

    Farhadi’s latest film which is currently on screen in Iranian…

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  • The Italian group Teatro Potlach has brought a stage adaption of the novel ‘20,000 Leagues Under the Sea’ written by French novelist, poet and playwright Jules Verne (1828-1905).

    The play…

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  • The Iranian men’s national football 7-a-side team won the silver medal in the 2016 Summer Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro on Friday, after losing 1-2 to Ukraine in the final match.

    Iran’…

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  • Iranian athletes collected eight more medals at the 2016 Summer Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday and Thursday

    On the 7th day of the games, Wednesday, powelifter Siamand…

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  • Iran’s largest library founded by patrons opened on September 15 in Zanjan Province.

    Seyyed Afzal Mousavi Public Library is now the seventh library in Zanjan, founded by patrons, and the…

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  • The Iranian short film ‘Lay My Bed in the Room’ directed by Amir Toudeh Roosta’s has won the Jury Prize of the short film Festival Silhouette held earlier this month in Paris.

    With 40 short…

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  • Thirty-five oil paintings by Iranian painter Mohammad Ghaffari, better known as Kamal-ol-Molk (1859-1940) have been inscribed on the National Movable Heritage List.

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  • Iranian athletes managed to scoop three more medals, one gold and two bronzes, on the sixth day of 2016 Summer Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

    The fourth gold medalist was the archer…

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  • Book City Institute will start cooperation with Chekhov Cultural Center in Moscow and Saint Petersburg’s Writers’ Union, according to the institute’s deputy of cultural and international affairs,…

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  • The Blind Owl, the magnum opus of Iranian writer and translator Sadeq Hedayat (1903-1951) is adapted for a play to be staged at City Theater in Tehran.

    Theater director, theoretician,…

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  • The National Gallery of Art in London was sued last week in New York for the return of the 1908 Henri Matisse painting 'Portrait of Greta Moll' by three grandchildren of its subject, who claim it…

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  • From 1976 to 1978, Swiss journalist and pioneer aerial photographer Georg Gerster, 87, flew several times over Iran and explored it from the perspective of the bird’s eye.

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  • The 17th celebration of House of Cinema was held in Tehran on September 12, awarding the best in Iranian cinema in the past year.

    The bitter social drama ‘Life+1 Day’ by first timer Saeed…

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  • Iranian Artists' Forum is organizing research seminars on three Iranian masters of visual arts who have created lasting masterpieces.

    Shahnaz Hall of Iranian Artists' Forum in Tehran will…

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  • The Society for Appreciation of Cultural Works and Dignitaries, also known as National Heritage Society, will hold a ceremony on September 18 in Tehran to honor Professor Sharif Hussein Qasemi, 72…

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  • Armenian journalists and chief editors from across the world will meet the Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Ali Jannati on September 17.

    The meeting is organized on the occasion of…

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  • Iranian athletes won four more medals, including two golds and two silvers, on the fifth day of the 2016 Summer Paralympic Games in Rio on September 12.

    Power-lifter Majid Farzin took part…

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  • Iranian Paralympic archers won a silver medal in the mixed team recurve open competitions of the 2016 Summer Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro on  September 11.

    In a close encounter,…

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  • Sa'dabad Cultural Historical Complex in Tehran will host two Austrian music ensembles on two different days, September 15 and September 20.  Violinist and mandolinist Clemens Bittmann and…

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  • In her novel 'The Geography of You and Me' American novelist Jennifer Smith has carefully charted a map of long-distance relationship. Her map shows that the center of the world isn't necessarily…

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  • A new University of Southern California (USC) report reveals that little has changed on screen or behind the camera regarding inequality in Hollywood.

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  • In an open letter to the Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Ali Jannati, 435 publishers and book sellers have demanded the law intervene against the illegal release of their books.

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  • Iran’s female shooter Sareh Javanmardi won Iran’s first gold medal at the 2016 Summer Paralympics Games in Rio de Janeiro in the 10m air pistol shooting competitions on September 9.

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