Art And Culture

Muggles and wizards alike have united worldwide for the release of the latest book in the hit Harry Potter franchise.

However, people wanting to get their hands on the book may have to wait…

The prominent Iranian classical guitarist Lily Afshar will have two musical performances on August 5 and 6 at Niavaran Cultural Center in Tehran.

She will play Iranian folk music and…

A modern adaptation of Sophocles' play Antigone is underway at Tehran's Baran Theater.

The play which opened on July 17 is titled 'Antigone?' and "is a violent adaptation" of the third of…

An Iran-Italy joint concert will be held at Tehran's Vahdat Hall on August 10-12.

As the guest conductor, Iranian Armenian composer and conductor Loris Tjeknavorian, 78, will conduct the 3-…

The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) became the second sports body to ban the entire Russian team from participating in the upcoming Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. Russia’s track…

Vitrine, the first 'Iran's Got Talent' program is to be released on Tuesday, August 2, on the home video network.

The program is aimed at discovering new talents in Iran. It is comparable…

The festival of Barana Music Nights, the first of its series, will be held on August 10-19 at Tehran's Golestan Palace.

Featuring seven performances by renowned musicians from Iran and…

The outfit of Iranian participants in the opening ceremony of the Rio Olympics was unveiled by Iran's National Olympics Committee (NOC) on July 28, after the initial controversy.

Persian classical music vocalist and player of tombak (goblet drum) and kamancheh (Iranian bowed string instrument) Homayoun Shajarian, 40, will play the role of Persian poet, mathematician,…

The first international seminar on Persian poet Nur-al-Din Abd al-Rahman Jami (1414-1492) will be held on August 17-18 in the city of Torbat-Jam, Khorasan Razavi Province,  where the renowned…

The Iranian play 'Hearing' written and directed by Amir Reza Koohestani was staged in the competition section of the Avignon Festival in France.

The 70th edition of the festival which…

Tamay ensemble will perform a concert of Azeri folk music at Tehran's Vahdat Hall on July 31.

The concert starts at 9:30 pm. Rasoul Delrish will lead the performance, and Dariush Dahri will…

'The Salesman' by the Iranian Academy Award winner director Asghar Farhadi will compete in the 41st Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in Canada.

Over a year has passed since last spring when Mohsen Qassabian, 46, brought his play, 'The Nut' on stage for the first time.

He has now restaged the play "emphasizing the formalistic…

Artist Ai Weiwei has reproduced scenes of his incarceration for a new art installation, a series of almost life-size dioramas - encased in steel boxes - showing his life in jail.

Theater director and playwright Hussein Kiani will stage a play based on the accounts of Persian poet Saadi's life, at the Fajr Theater Festival next year.

'One Day in Sheikh Ajal's Life'…

The all-women music group Jivar will hold a concert for three nights in the western city of Sanandaj, Kordestan Province, August 4-6.

The group will perform Kurdish and Lori folk and…

Saba Apartment in the northeast of Tehran, Heravi neighborhood, is among the winners of the 2016 International Architecture Awards in Chicago.

Flying Shams, Pari Saberi's old play that has appeared several times at various venues in Iran, France, Italy and Turkey, will now be staged at Tehran's Sa'dabad complex.

The show at Iwan-…

Afghan refugees and the local community have come together to transform the Saadi neighborhood in Shiraz, Fars Province, with colorful works of art in a clean-up project. Like much of Iran,…

Iranian photographer Farzin Nazemzadeh won a gold medal at the Arctic Exhibition of Photographic Art 2016, held in Oslo, Norway.

Architect and photographer Nazemzadeh, 53, was awarded the…

The Iranian-Italian joint play 'Human Farm' written and directed by Ali Shams has been invited to take part in the Fringe Festival, slated for August 25-September 10 in Rome, Italy.

The dominant trend in art auctions and exhibits dictates that dealers and patrons go after the big names.

Going against the trend now is an artistic group called 'Kajorast' (literally…

The 16th Picture World Cinema and TV Ceremony was held at Tehran's Vahdat Hall on July 23, in the presence of a large number of cineastes, artists and cultural figures where the movie 'Life+1Day'…

A raw silk manteau, illustrated with the tragic love story of Shirin and Farhad costing 200 million rials ($5,714) has been designed by fashion designer Sara Alemzadeh.

On this exotic piece…