Art And Culture

Mohamed Al-Subeeh was a senior restorer at Syria’s best-known mosaic museum, but as war swept deeper into his province, destroying artifacts and threatening his and his family’s lives, he was…

Renowned Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi’s newest film ‘The Salesman’ (released as ‘The Client’ in French) will have its world premiere on May 21 at Cannes Film Festival 2016.

The movie,…

Iranian filmmaker Ida Panahandeh received the talent award at the Women in Motion program which was held at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival on May 15.

South Korean author Han Kang won the Man Booker International Prize for fiction on Monday for her novel ‘The Vegetarian’, a dark, surreal story about a woman who gives up eating meat and seeks to…

A drawing collection, titled ‘Mysteries’ by artist Reza Panahi is on show at Tehran’s Fasihi Harandi Art Gallery.

Over 170 drawings have been featured, among which 80 items are displayed on…

Chinese artist Huang Yong Ping has filled Paris’s Grand Palais art space with a giant snake and cliffs of shipping containers for the 7th Monumenta installation.

Entitled’ Empires’, the…

The play ‘Count to One’ by the Iranian puppet troupe Yas-e-Tamam, will be performed at the 16th International Festival of Puppets and Animated Forms which is currently underway in Portugal.

A digital graphic creation, titled ‘Dimension of Ocean’ by Iranian artist Mohammad Ali Famori is part of the exhibited items at the ‘Contemporary Venice: Architectures of Identities,’ currently…

The spring art sales ended with a bit of a whimper in New York on Thursday at Christie’s’ muted auction of Impressionist and modern art.

The sales took in $141.4 million against a pre-sale…

The latest collection of clay sculptures by young artist Hamed Rashtian is currently on view at Tehran’s Khak Art Gallery.

Titled ‘Reverie’, the series comprises 10 sculptures made of “a…

A ceremony to celebrate the successful conclusion of the series ‘Shahrzad’ was held at Tehran’s Milad Tower on Sunday (May 15) in the presence of its cast and crew as well as artists, cultural…

Over 2,000 advertisement billboards in Tehran will be replaced with copies of famous artworks by Iranian and western artists for the second edition of its kind.

A Taiwan company has used four million colorful plastic bottles to produce a giant replica of Vincent van Gogh’s painting ‘The Starry Night’ to promote recycling.

The installation covers 53…

A short animation ‘The Little Boy’ directed by Mona Abdollah-Shahi will be screened at two international events.

The sixth edition of the International Film and Audiovisual Festival for…

Bell Music Group which works in the field of children’s music will have a concert at Tehran’s Rudaki Hall on May 27, in which a group of grandmothers will accompany the child performers in choral…

Three Iranian projects are among the 19 shortlisted at the 2016 Aga Khan Award for Architecture (AKAA).

Iran is the only country with three projects in the final shortlist among the 14…

A sculpture exhibition titled ‘Floral Compositions, Travelers of Time’ by Hoda Zarbaf, an Iranian expatriate artist, is currently on view at Tehran’s Aaran Gallery.

An adapted play on Faust, the protagonist of a classic German legend, directed by Milad Akbarnejad will go on stage in fall at Iranshahr Theater Hall.

Originally written by German…

Two new works by Mahmoud Farshchian, master of Persian painting and miniatures was unveiled at Tehran’s Sa’dabad Complex on Saturday.

Shahnameh stories teach all Iranians lessons of courage, honesty, sacrifice, patriotism and commitment, Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Ali Jannati said at the three-day commemorative…

The third edition of the Tehran Experimental Art Week was launched on Thursday (May 12) at the Niavaran Cultural Center in Tehran.

Organized by the Urban Art House (UAH), the event covers…

The Tehran Symphony Orchestra will perform under musicians Farhad Fakhreddini and Nasir Heydarian, at the closing ceremony of the Shanghai Spring International Music Festival on May 18.

A calligraphy exhibition, on the eve of the National Day of Khayyam (May 17), the celebrated Persian mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and poet, opened at the Kamal-ol Molk Gallery in…

Based on estimates, the sales at the 29th Tehran International Book Fair (TIBF) crossed $25 million on Wednesday, (May 11), the eighth day of the fair, Amir Masoud Shahramnia, deputy of the…

The 5th Iran International Green Film Festival (IIGFF) officially opened on Friday evening at Tehran’s Felestin (Palestine) Cinema after a 10-year hiatus.