Art And Culture

Establishment of a traditional arts and handicrafts university, proposed several years ago by master of Persian painting and miniature Mahmoud Farshchian, 86, is now under review, according to…

Many Iranians have a taste for Spanish music; they either listen to it or follow the style in playing an instrument and composing musical works.

Colors of Homeland is the upcoming exhibition of paintings by London-based Iranian painter, designer and architect Edman Ayvazian, 85, to be hosted by Niavaran Cultural Center in Tehran.

Iranian cartoonist Davoud Ahmadi Mouness, alias Arvin, has brought his caricatures on canvas for the first time in an exhibition at Saless Gallery.

Titled 'Group Exhibition of Arvin &…

The closing ceremony of the First Health Film Festival was held in Tehran on Saturday, August 28. The Health Ministry would help produce 10 films in the field of health it was announced at the…

Works of 25 Iranian interior designers will go on display at Maison & Objet trade show in Paris, France, from September 2.

Inspired by the success of the mobile game ‘Pokemon Go’, a Belgian primary school headmaster has developed an online game for people to search for books instead of cartoon monsters, attracting…

This is art because the artist says it's art, declared French artist Marcel Duchamp about his famous Bicycle Wheel in 1913.

A parallel reference of the Duchampian definition is made by Foad…

The weekly gathering of Book City Institute on Tuesday, August 23, hosted Faezeh Mardani, PhD, adjunct professor at School of Arts, Humanities and Cultural Heritage and also professor of Persian…

Italy’s culture ministry has declared that proceeds from visits to public museums across Italy on Sunday (August 28) will be given to the restoration of damaged buildings in the quake zone.

The first Special Carpet Auction held by the National Auction House on Friday, August 26, at Tehran's Khaneh-Hamayesh in north Tehran, generated $8.7 million.

The highest bid went to the…

Khonya Ensemble, a group of traditional Iranian musicians, will be performing at Tehran's Vahdat Hall this week along with Iran's Band of Stringed Instruments.

'Times and Stories: In memory…

The celebrated Iranian actor Davoud Rashidi died of cardiac arrest at his home in Tehran on Friday, August 26, at the age of 83.

The funeral procession will start Sunday morning from Vahdat…

Iranian actor Peyman Moaadi has the HBO’s limited mini-series 'The Night Of' on air these days, an intense crime drama, created and written by Steven Zaillian and Richard Price based on BBC’s '…

Dubai-based Iranian painter Behnaz Ghasemi is participating in the RTL: LTR (right to left, left to right) exhibition currently taking place in the Austrian capital Vienna.

The English translations of two books written by Iranian authors have been banned at the Beijing International Book Fair (BIBF).

The 20th edition of BIBF, August 24-28, censored two books…

Italian cultural attaché to Tehran, professor of Iranian Studies at Sapienza University of Rome, Carlo Giovanni Cereti, and Italian deputy head of mission Maurizio Antonini, met Ali…

Actor and theater director Parsa Pirouzfar will stage 'Matryoshka', from September 5 at Iranshahr Theater in Tehran, based on eight short stories by the famous Russian playwright and short story…

A $1.3 million mural by British street artist Banksy which mocked government surveillance has been destroyed during building works on the house on which it appeared in 2014, the local council said…

The first exhibition of art books titled “Book as House’ will open on August 26 at Tehran’s Aaran Art Gallery.

The central theme of the exhibition is art book or artist’s book, a work of…

The best of fantasy, horror and science fiction genres were awarded at the closing ceremony of the fourth Fiction Contest 'Legends' held at Tehran's Andisheh Cultural Center on Tuesday, August 23…

German sculptor and installation artist Gunther Uecker, 85, has presented several of his works to the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art.

They include 44 acrylic and oil paintings and prints…

In a recent survey by the BBC, 177 film critics from around the world have selected the best 100 movies of the 21st century including two films by the late Abbas Kiarostami and one by Asghar…

Iranian fiction writer Zoha Kazemi's fourth Persian novel 'Year of the Tree' has recently been translated into English by American translator Caroline Croskery.

Actor and theater director Payam Larian will stage his internationally-prized play 'Parallel Prowls' at Tehran's Molavi Hall from September 9-21.

"The play is a work by a group of…