Art And Culture

The Tehran Beautification Organization is planning to hold a mural competition on city school walls to celebrate the beginning of the new academic year (starts September 23).

The…

Crowd funding has made the impossible possible, and the ‘Lord of the Rings’ fans aspire to do just that, by raising $2.82 billion to build a full sized replica of the city Minas Tirith.

The second phase of an art project by artist Mehran Rad ‘Co-Experience’ will provide a platform for people to express their wishes in a bid to inspire public participation, bring different strata…

The secretariat of the Azadegan (literally, released prisoners) Visual Art Festival, received a total of 725 works which will be evaluated by the jury in the current week.

The festival call…

Eight movies from Iran, five shorts, two features and one documentary, will vie at Religion Today Film Festival in Italy.

Since 1997 Religion Today has been the foremost international and…

Singapore is hosting one of the world’s most high profile philatelic events – the Singapore 2015 World Stamp Exhibition.

The exhibition is held every 10 years under the patronage of the…

The 17th edition of Ritual Traditional Theater Festival will host ‘Beyzai’ directed by Mohammad Mosavat.

The play is on Bahram Beyzai (cinema and theatre director), Mosavat said. “The story…

Tara Gallery in Los Angeles has showcased artworks of Iranian contemporary artist Mahvash Joorabchi.

Five paintings by Joorabchi are on display at the American international art gallery,…

A main square in the capital was renamed after an Armenian war martyr at a ceremony on Saturday. A first of its kind, the event was attended by representatives of the Armenian community in Tehran…

A group paintings exhibition titled ‘Still Life?’ was inaugurated at the Iranian Artists’ Forum (IAF) in Tehran on Friday.

British artist and anti-surveillance activist James Bridle is illuminating Germany with artwork exploring the darkest state secrets, cover-ups and information blackouts.

The play ‘Room 498’ by theatre director and playwright Kamyar Salehpur is underway at Hafez Theatre Hall.

It is adapted from the story written by Alireza Ajali with the same name,…

Habibollah Sadeqi, veteran artist, has started work on an 80-meter long painting ‘Liberation of Khorramshahr’ that is to be displayed at the Panoramic Museum of Sacred Defense Operations.

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Classical and Persian traditional singer Salar Aqili, will perform his piece ‘My Homeland’ on Iran’s National Day at Milan Expo 2015.

Renowned Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami and his 1990 movie ‘Close-Up’ have been placed  among the top 10 Asian directors and movies of all time according to two new lists published by the…

After seven months, and an incredible amount of yarn, the work of 50 artists was unveiled in Warwick’s knitted kitchen.

Knitters have transformed the foyer of the Warwick Art Gallery in…

The capabilities of Iranian women are on display at the 10-day ‘Banoo’ (literally woman) City Festival at Tehran’s Milad Tower.

The event opened on August 12 in different sporting, artistic…

Acclaimed Iranian poet, author and university lecturer Mohammad Shams Langeroodi and mythologist, poet and writer Abolghasem Esmaeilpur, competed in the 5th Qinghai Lake International Poetry…

The China Philharmonic Orchestra and the Tehran Symphony Orchestra will give a joint performance at Vahdat Hall in Tehran on August 13-14.

Long Yu, chief conductor and artistic director of…

Sho’leh Jalili owns an assorted collection of footwear with 200 different pairs gathered from all over Iran.

The gem in her collection is 1,700 years old, belonging to the Sasanid era (224…

A young Iranian graphic designer Taha Zaker has bagged the 2016 Gold Award at the Graphis Poster Annual, the largest and most extraordinary of the Graphis competitions.

Based in New York,…

The sixth National Screenwriting Competition for Children and Young Adults has called for entries for the 29th International Children’s Film Festival, slated for October 2-7.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, headquartered in New York City, has some of the most incredible free online resources for art lovers available on the Internet. Now it’s increased the number of…

A Picasso painting belonging to one of Spain’s wealthiest bankers and seized in France following an export ban was delivered to a Madrid museum on Tuesday, where it will be held until a dispute…

A travelogue ‘Persia to Iran’ by Armenian-origin artist and photographer Nuran Zorlu, has been published by the Iranian Embassy in Australia.

The book describes visits to ancient sites and…