Movies of two Iranian filmmakers are set to vie at the world competition section of the 39th Montreal World Film Festival (MWFF), slated from August 27 to September 7.
Two months ago it was…
Art And Culture
<p>Iran art and culture news, Read the most current stories about art and culture in Iran including exhibition, movies, theatre and music news. </p>
Art-And-Culture
There is an old famous saying, “Art rests with Iranians only.” Over the past centuries, it was the Persians who showed the way to the world in the various skills of art. The history of Iran is also…Art-And-Culture
A 13-year-old girl from Gorgan won the first prize at the World of Art Slovenia-2014 contest and 10 other Iranian boys and girls won the plaque of honor at the international event in Ljubljana.…
Art-And-Culture
Bookstores in New York opened at midnight when copies of Harper Lee’s eagerly awaited, but controversial second novel ‘Go Set a Watchman’ flew off the shelves more than half a century after the…Art-And-Culture
Works of eight Iranian designers will be showcased at a program organized under the auspices of ‘Darab Fashion Week’ from July 19, at Tehran’s Esteghlal hotel. Atela fashion group will stage the show…Art-And-Culture
For the first time a number of Arabic manuscripts that make up part of the Sir George Grey Special Collections at the Central Auckland Library in New Zealand have been translated.
The task…
Art-And-Culture
Ryan McNaught has probably laid more bricks than any builder in the country. As one of only 12 certified Lego professionals around the world, he’s a unique breed of labourer.
For the first…
Art-And-Culture
Oscar-nominated composer Ennio Morricone will be doing an original score for Quentin Tarantino’s new movie ‘The Hateful Eight’.
It will be the first western score for the prolific Morricone…
Art-And-Culture
An exhibition of paintings by a young artist, Maral Esfahani, will open at Vista Art Gallery in Tehran on July 24.
All works are from a collection which the artist has created “on the…
Art-And-Culture
A play reading event to raise funds for artists suffering from cancer, will be hosted by Giti theatre group, said its director Roohollah Jafari.
The seven-day program is slated for August…
Art-And-Culture
President Hassan Rouhani urged artists and intellectuals to help the state and society by promoting ethics, creating social balance and eliminating extremism and violence, at an Iftar ceremony…
Art-And-Culture
Having attracted media attention across the world, the immaculately restored Vickers Supermarine Spitfire sold for $ 4.8 million, establishing a new world record price for any Spitfire at auction…
Art-And-Culture
The International Festival of the Holy Qur’an is being held for the first time in Russia by Iran’s Cultural Attaché Office in Moscow in collaboration with the Russian Muftis Council.
Art-And-Culture
Iranian composer and conductor Karen Keyhani’s latest musical album, co-performed with Matka ensemble from Geneva, will be available in the market after permit is granted by the Music Department…
Art-And-Culture
Marking the first anniversary of the 50-day devastating Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, hundreds of international and Palestinian activists organized a four-day arts festival (July 8-11) to…
Art-And-Culture
Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Ali Jannati met a large number of Armenian researchers, teachers, translators and university professors of Persian language in Yerevan on Friday.
…
Art-And-Culture
Theatre director and TV actor Amirkaveh Ahanin Jan, plans to stage ‘On the Waterfront’, adapted from a popular movie with the same title, directed by Elia Kazan, at Hafez theatre hall.
Art-And-Culture
Actor Omar Sharif, best known for his roles in classic films Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago, has died at the age of 83.
Egypt-born Sharif won two Golden Globe awards and an Oscar…
Art-And-Culture
A report by the Department of Business and Support at the Farabi Cinema Foundation (FCF), says a total of 90 films are in different stages of production in Iran.
Art-And-Culture
Theater director Farzad Amini is staging ‘Love in the Time of Cholera’, a novel by Nobel Prize-winning Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez at Iranshahr Theatre Hall.
The book was first…
Art-And-Culture
On the sidelines of the Tehran International Qur’an Exhibition, Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Ali Jannati said the Tehran Book Garden and Sacred Defense Garden Museum, located in Abbas-…
Art-And-Culture
The “Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots” exhibition at the Tate Liverpool, co-organized by the Dallas Museum of Art, is the first in more than three decades to survey the lesser-known paintings of the…
Art-And-Culture
The 5th International Green Film Festival, centering on water and water scarcity in the country, will call for submissions by the end of July so that the festival resumes in Tehran after an eight-…
Art-And-Culture
At the book review session of her novel ‘I Fear Guranis’, author Belgheis Soleimani said: “Our intention is to create an abstract world that opens a thousand doors and the readers should not reach…
Art-And-Culture
Culture and art are part of a nation’s identity and cannot be imported like products that face scarcity in the local market, said head of Iran Cinema Organization Hojatollah Ayoubi, in a meeting…
Art-And-Culture
