Art And Culture

Doctrine of Scientific Knowledge (Wissenschaftslehre), written by German philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762–1814) will be discussed on Tuesday July 26 at the Cultural Center of Book…

Playwright and director of the play 'Tenant' Setareh Aminian, will show her work in Paris after its staging in Tehran.

Tenant is currently underway at Hafez Hall. It opened on July 11 and…

The Music Band 'Khonyagaran-e-Mehr' (literally 'Love Minstrels') will stage their first concert at Tehran's Vahdat Hall on July 26, while the famous Iranian traditional singer Mohammad Motamedi…

The old Iranian folktale Hassan the Bald (Persian: Hassan Kachal) has returned anew in six volumes.

Children's story writer Mojgan Sheikhi, 53, has written a collection of stories in which…

Fusion Art, California has announced submissions for “Waterscapes,” its September 2016 international online juried art exhibition.

Iranian sculptor and painter Qordatollah Aqeli is organizing an exhibition to showcase a variety of works by different sculptors in late summer.

"A major focus of my exhibition titled '30…

Art fans flocked to the Golestan Gallery in Tehran to visit and purchase artworks, as the 24th edition of the annual exhibition '100 Works, 100 Artists' opened on July 22.

Iranian TV and cinema actress Shohreh Soltani staged her first vocal performance at Tehran's Vahdat Hall on July 20-21.

Together with Dot Music Band, which she founded recently, Soltani's…

Busts of 14 poets will be sculpted and installed in Tehran following a recommendation by Iranian Poets' Society, said Seyyed Mojtaba Mousavi, cultural deputy of Tehran Beautification Organization…

An exhibition focusing on the refugee crisis is due to open next month on the island of Samos, a Greek island near the Turkish coast that has been at the heart of the humanitarian tragedy…

Depths of the Persian Gulf, an exploration of the deep waters, will be broadcast by the state-owned IRIB documentary channel Mostanad from Saturday, July 23.

Ali Abdipour, 44, director and…

The play 'Socrates' written and directed by Hamidreza Naeemi will be staged again in mid August for 20 nights at Tehran's Vahdat Hall.

It will be the fourth time that the play will be…

Iranian bands Tehran Vocal Ensemble and Parse Choir Group that competed in the 9th World Choir Games in Sochi, Russia, (July 6-16) both won silver medals.

Suspension in Depths of Atlantic, a play related to the Second World War (1939-1945), will go stage at Tehran’s Nasser-Khosro theater hall on July 26.

The play is written and directed by…

Niavaran Cultural Center in north of Tehran was host to a duet of oud and bass performance by Swedish and Iranian instrumentalist on July 18-19.

Rumors, a play by French playwright, screenwriter, director and actor Jean-Michel Ribes, 69, is underway at Tehran’s Entezami House Museum.

“It is a children’s comedy about gossip,…

The most recent interpretation of the Masnavi-Manavi (Spiritual Couplets), a collection of spiritual verses by Persian poet Jalal ad-Din Mohammad Rumi (1207-1273), has been published by the Tehran…

All cultures enjoy music, but tastes vary. Are the variations cultural or biological? What is it that makes some combinations of notes pleasant and others less so?

Peace on Paper, the second edition of the Biennale of Iran’s Contemporary Art will be held July 22-31 at Tehran’s Niavaran Cultural Center (NCC).

The event is supported by Niavaran…

After 16 years, ‘Journey to the Extreme Far’ was granted permission for public staging, said its director and playwright Mohammad Miraliakbari.

It opened on July 12 at Charsou Hall of…

The book signing ceremony for the first two volumes of the Persian fantasy horror novel ‘Parsua Plain’ written by Maryam Azizi and published by Ofoq Publishers was held at Ofoq bookstore in…

A room without books is like a body without a soul, Roman philosopher, politician, lawyer and orator Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) said over two millennia ago.

A biographical fiction of Persian poet, theoretician of Sufism and hagiographer, Attar of Nishabur (1145-1221) has been published by Sooremehr Publications, the publishing center of the Tehran-…

The Iranian computer video game ‘Murder in Tehran’s Alleys 2’ (MITA2) developed by the company Rasana Shokooh-e Kavir (RSK) will be released on July 21.

The latest work by Iranian writer and political analyst Sadeq Zibakalam, ‘How West Became West’, will be discussed on Wednesday, July 20 at Tehran’s Andisheh Cultural Center.

The meeting…