Art And Culture

The 2015 Special Olympics World Summer Games (SOWSG) opened on July 25 in Los Angeles and an Iranian athlete carried the torch at the opening ceremony at the LA Memorial Coliseum.

Young…

Young Iranian painters have launched a group-painting exhibition ‘Possibilities’ at Anahita Art Gallery.

The show includes works by Shahriar Gharai, Golnaz Hosseini and Mehrnaz Dalvandi,…

The fourth edition of ‘My’ group exhibition displaying works by 11 artists is underway at Laleh Art Gallery in Tehran.

Exhibition coordinator Javid Ramezani said 35 photo art and paintings…

The Economist Group could become the latest British media business to undergo a change of ownership this year as its co-owner Pearson focuses on education, bankers and industry sources said.

Vista Art Gallery in Tehran was packed with artists and art fans on July 24 on the opening day of a painting exhibition by young artist Maral Esfahani.

The highlight of the exhibition was…

Iranian playwright, designer and theatre director, Taliyeh Tarighi is staging ‘The Chairs’, adapted from a Eugène Ionesco’s play with the same name at Iranian Artists Forum.

Majid Majidi’s latest work ‘Muhammad’ an epic movie on the early life of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), till the age of 13, is slated for release on August 26.

Iranian cine star Mohammadreza Golzar has signed a contract to be the first actor set to play in ‘Salaam Mumbai’, the first joint production between Iran and Bollywood after the 1979 Islamic…

The first National Mothers Festival of Film and Photo, which was slated for July 28-31, has been postponed.

Due to the great enthusiasm evinced by artists and filmmakers, the policy making…

Book publication saw a 16% increase in the first quarter of the current Iranian year (started March 21) compared with last year.

During the first three months, over 16,000 books were…

Around the corner from a bland grey street in the working class Tres de Febrero suburb of Buenos Aires, a blue boat starts to take form on a wall.

Street artist Andres Rotundo Fraga,…

Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Ali Jannati will address the opening ceremony of the 28th Moscow International Book fair (MIBF) on September 2.

Iran is the guest of honor at this…

A prize-winning play ‘Guiding the Younger Generation’ directed by Mohammad Montazeri, is on stage at Maktab-e Tehran theatre hall.

The story features the divergent opinion and ideas of four…

India’s embassy will hold ‘Indian Cultural Week’ at Tehran’s Niavaran Palace in cooperation with Iran Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization (ICHHTO) from July 27-31.

The exhibition ‘100 Works, 100 Artists’ at Golestan Gallery in Tehran, fetched $50,000 on the opening day sales.

A group of artists and volunteers are reclaiming the walls in Karachi by painting them with cheerful designs aimed at bringing “some happiness and pride back to an often violent, chaotic and…

Written by Mohammad Rahimian and directed by Reza Ahmadi, ‘Rooster’ was on stage recently at Entezami House Museum.

Earlier the play was performed in the northeastern city of Mashhad in…

A Kiwi has won the French-language Scrabble world championship, reportedly without speaking a word of French.

The BBC reported that Nigel Richards, originally from Christchurch, defeated a…

Over 600 booksellers and publishing houses will be exempted from tax payment as per a law passed in 2014.

The law was first passed in 2001 but the tax administration said the executive…

Lifting of sanctions following the nuclear accord will further increase the visibility of Iranian movies abroad, believes head of Iran Cinema Organization Hojatollah Ayoubi.

He hoped for an…

‘The Blood Knot’ is on stage at Iran Theatre Forum. It is directed by Hooshmand Honarkar, dramaturge and designer.

Is it possible to digitize and verify every art object ever made?

Verisart, a new site co-founded by Robert Norton, previously chief executive officer of two online art-commerce sites,…

The Tehran-based charity ‘Toloo Bi-Neshanha Society’ (Dawn of the Unknown) organized an event recently in support of the homeless with the participation of television and cinema artists, officials…

The Ministry of Culture and Islamic guidance will deal sternly with unlawful acts by those who challenge Iran’s Association of Calligraphers, said Culture Minister Ali Jannati, at the 12th general…

An exhibition of rural and nomadic handmade dolls was held on July 22-23 at Tehran’s Avaye-Tabiate-Paydar Institute, a tourism center, to highlight rural handicrafts and their potential for…