Art And Culture

‘La Signora’ (The Lady), a play by Iranian theater group Moj, will go on stage in the Italian cities of Bologna and Pisa.

Written and directed by Arash Abbasi, the play will be featured in…

After more than 150 years of documenting the faces and landscapes of India, a photo studio that many considered the world’s oldest in operation has shuttered.

A free, ‘poetic’ adaptation of Kafka’s ‘The Metamorphosis’ will be staged on July 20 at Tehran City Theater’s Sayeh Hall.

‘Little Joys in Becoming a Beetle’ is the new play directed by…

Asghar Farhadi’s ‘The Salesman’ won the ARRI/Osram Award for the best international film at the closing ceremony of the Munich International Film Festival (Filmfest MUNCHEN) on Saturday, July 2,…

The second annual 2A Asia Architecture Award will be held in Vienna in October.

Organized by 2A Magazine and the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, the event focuses on recognizing an…

Celebrating the 500th anniversary of English author Thomas More’s inspirational book Utopia, ‘Paths to Utopia’ is a collection of new artworks resulting from collaboration between artists,…

An audio book has been published in Armenian language from a selection of poems by the acclaimed 20th century Persian poet Parvin Etesami.

The book is a joint project of the Iranian Embassy…

Ancient Greek tragedy ‘Hippolytus’ is on stage at Hafez Hall in Tehran.

Farzad Amini is directing the play, for which he has rewritten the dialogues from the only Persian translation…

The deputy director of Book City Institute Ali Asghar Mohammadkhani, was in Berlin last week to work out the modalities of cooperation with literary and cultural institutes in Germany.

Senior journalist Hamid Najafi, 85, managing director and editor-in-chief of the English-language newspaper Kayhan International, passed away in Tehran on Friday, July 1.

Najafi was…

An anonymous US collector’s decision to withdraw the top lot an hour before Christie’s sale on Wednesday night made for a jittery start in an already uncertain market in London.

The 1994…

Naghmeh-Isfahan music band won the crystal award at the 10th International Folk and Choral festival of Calella in Catalonia, Spain.

“Ours was the only band that represented Iran in Calella…

As part of its effort to increase diversity among its ranks, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), which is known around the world for its annual Academy Awards, or The Oscars,…

The Iranian feature film ‘The Daughter’ directed by the prominent filmmaker Reza Mirkarimi won three awards at the closing ceremony of the 38th Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF) on…

The 24th edition of Tehran International Holy Qur’an Exhibition wrapped up in Tehran on Tuesday, June 28, while a popular section was a stall dedicated to the social initiative of ‘I Love Hijab’…

A 45-volume collection of illustrated books in the format of comic strips will be published to inform children and young adults about the stories of valor and sacrifice of Iranian combatants and…

To say that the Tehran art scene is booming would be an understatement. A veritable ‘renaissance’ of arts, crafts, design, and culture is sweeping the capital, with the city’s walls increasingly…

A new album by ‘kamancheh’ (bowed string instrument) virtuoso Kayhan Kalhor, 53, was released worldwide on June 24. The album is named ‘Hawniyaz’ meaning ‘together’ or ‘for one another’ in Kurdish…

A free adaptation of William Shakespeare’s timeless play ‘Hamlet’ directed by Arash Dadgar will be staged at the Gdansk Shakespeare Festival in Poland soon.

A product of the Iranian theater…

Eighteen musical performances for the summer months and eight albums were given permits by the Music Department of the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, last week.

Bonhams leads the Post-War and Contemporary Art season with a spectacular Andy Warhol painting of Chairman Mao, estimated at $640,000-860,000, to be offered in the London auction on June 29.

Bud Spencer, the Italian star of numerous Spaghetti Westerns, died peacefully in Rome on Monday, July 27. He was 86.

He is known to many Iranians as “Bigfoot” for his huge size; he weighed…

Over 23,000 books were donated by several publishing companies to children’s hospitals across the country as part of a charity campaign.

A total of 149 foreign media outlets including TV and radio channels, news agencies, print media and photo institutions have permission from the Foreign Media Department of the Ministry of Culture…

Iranian translator and journalist Asadollah Amraee, 56, is putting the finishing touches to his translation in Farsi of ‘My Life: A Spoken Autobiography’ by Cuba’s revolutionary leader Fidel…