Art And Culture

The 13th edition of the Image of the Year and Tassvir Film Festival was inaugurated at the Iranian Artists Forum (IAF) in Tehran on Feb. 19.

The annual event, featuring two sections of…

A play reading session titled ‘Us’, by Iranian theater director Kioumars Moradi will be held in the US state of Texas on February 20 and 21.

A 2009 production of Aram Art Institute, the…

The first exhibition of classic cars and motorcycles dating back to the 1930s and 1940s was inaugurated at Qasr Garden-Museum in Tehran on Wednesday, (Feb. 17).

The event was attended by…

A haunting black-and-white image of a refugee passing a baby under a barbed wire fence won the prestigious World Press Photo Award on Thursday, highlighting Europe’s worst migrant crisis since…

A documentary ‘My Empty House’, was screened on Thursday at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, during the 8th Fajr International Festival of Visual Arts.

Directed by Reza Mehranfar, it…

Katsuyuki Kawai, special advisor to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, met Ali Jannati, minister of culture and Islamic Guidance in Tehran on Tuesday (Feb. 16), and discussed ways to enhance…

One will rarely hear an autistic child say “Look at Me.”

Ironically, “Look at Me” is the title of an ongoing exhibition of 55 paintings created by autistic children aged under 14 years that…

Several local music bands will present special performances for foreign guests on the last three days of the 31st Fajr International Music Festival from February 18-20.

A museum showcasing the life and works of Charlie Chaplin will finally open at his former Swiss home on April 17 after more than 15 years of planning, organizers announced Monday.

The…

The book ‘Illustrated Encyclopedia of Iranian Symbols’ compiled by the semiotician Bahman Namvar-Motlagh and art researcher Manijeh Kangarani was recently unveiled in Tehran.

Negarestan Garden is hosting an exhibition by the veteran Iranian fabric designer and teacher, Victoria Afshar, from February 14 to 28, to honor her inspiring efforts in the field.

The newspapers ‘Independent’ and ‘Independent on Sunday’ are to cease publication and go online only, its owner ESI Media has announced.

ESI Media said The Independent, launched in 1986,…

The play ‘Haunted’ directed by Behnam Ahmadi, is currently on stage at Tehran’s Da Theater Hall.

A production of ‘Papatiha’ Theater Group and written by Farshad Jafari, it narrates the life…

Mayor of Milan Giuliano Pisapia, accompanied by a delegation of Italian officials, paid a visit to the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMoCA) on Sunday (Feb. 14).

Besides visiting the…

Former Cinema Guild distribution executive Ryan Krivoshey has founded Grasshopper Film, an indie distribution company, and the first title to be released will be Iranian Oscar-winner Asghar…

A series of paintings by the late contemporary modernist poet, philosopher and artist, Sohrab Sepehri (1928-1980) is on view at Leila Heller Gallery in Dubai.

The collection marks the first…

The script of a new Harry Potter play, which is due to be published on July 31 following its world premiere in London, has already been a bestseller on the British version of Amazon since Thursday…

Qasr Garden-Museum is hosting 500 artworks by over 70 artists and academic professionals in art in the fields of painting, sculpting, relief and ‘khatam’ (Persian version of marquetry) for a month…

The documentary section of the 8th Fajr International Visual Art Festival opened at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Arts on February 15.

The fifth volume of ‘The Great Islamic Encyclopedia’ has been translated into English and published under the title of ‘Encyclopedia Islamica’, similar to the previous four volumes, by Brill…

A painting exhibition by artist Iman Habibi titled ‘Inversion’ is underway at Tehran’s Kargah-e-Honar art gallery.

The series includes a selection of 30 paintings from a 50-item collection…

People have a fascination with the Titanic - the doomed ship that sank more than 100 years ago in the North Atlantic Ocean.

Called the “ship of dreams,” the Titanic was unlike anything…

A photo exhibition by young Iranian artist, Babak Haghi, is underway at Tehran’s Abtin Art Gallery.

Titled ‘Reflective Mirrors’, the exhibition has 18 photos taken by Haghi in fall and…

The play ‘Coupon’ directed by Seyed Javad Roshan, staged at Tehran City Theater’s Sayeh Hall, criticizes social inequalities which exist in all societies.

The well-known Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Ivanovich Lazutkin has joined the ‘Eighth Seen: Sarpanah’ charity movement.

On the occasion of the 19th anniversary of his first space mission on…