Art And Culture

Missouri-based artist Rachel Ignotofsky has always been fascinated by science and art. With her latest illustration series, titled ‘Women in Science’ she pays tribute to the most celebrated female…

The City Museum of Munich (The Munich Stadtmuseum) has purchased six works from Iranian artist Hojat Amani’s collection to display them in its permanent gallery.

The pieces have been…

Turkish filmmaker Eshner Dan Yildiz is planning to make a documentary about the life and virtues of Imam Reza (AS), the eighth Shia Imam.

Speaking at a meeting with Iranian cultural attaché…

The Tehran Municipality must refrain from implementing short-term plans of city beautification to preserve its original texture and splendor.

A giant replica of France’s 36,000-year-old ‘Grotte Chauvet’, home to 1,000 prehistoric animal cave-drawings, was inaugurated by President François Hollande on Friday, after three years of…

An opera group ‘Ayric Ensemble’ plans to stage Roodabeh Operetta as the first Iranian opera, narrating the love story of ‘Zal’ and ‘Roodabeh’, two characters of ‘Shahnameh’ - also known as the ‘…

The full line-up for the 68th Cannes Film Festival was announced Thursday (April 16) with the Iranian film ‘Nahid’ present among the official selections.

Ida Panahandeh’s debut feature film…

Iranian and Turkish producers will jointly work on a cinematic project on Rumi and Shams Tabrizi.

Turkish film director and producer Tolga Celikkanat who heads the ‘Danisman Medya’ film…

A talented Iranian sculptor Hasan Nowrouzi has created a collection of animal sculptures that appear to be full of life and emotion.

Despite being painstakingly assembled from thousands of…

The new Khavaran Theater Complex will officially be inaugurated by the end of spring (June 20).

"Preparations for the theater complex are underway thanks to the municipality's cooperation…

As production gets underway in Vancouver, the legendary Hollywood director Steven Spielberg is teaming up with Walt Disney Studios for the first time to head Roald Dahl’s adaptation of ‘The BFG’ (…

The well-known Polish director Christopher Zanussi and Canadian instructor Jan Miller will attend the international section of the 33rd Fajr International Film Festival (FIFF) to hold professional…

A newly-established gallery in Tehran 'Today Art Gallery' is displaying artworks of two artists, Saba Najafi from Iran and Loredana Galante from Italy, at its first formal exhibition entitled '…

A total of 29 short films directed by students of the renowned filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami at his workshops in Colombia and Spain will be screened at the international section of the 33rd Fajr…

The Prado Museum in Madrid is displaying six 3D replicas of famous paintings, which visually impaired visitors can explore through touch.

Despite their intriguing surfaces, painted…

An Iranian theater troupe plans to stage the play entitled ‘Slow Sound of Snow’ in Warsaw, Venice and Amsterdam on its European tour in summer.

Directed by Jaber Ramezani, the play was…

Iran has been drawn against Oman, India, Turkmenistan, and Guam in the first stage of AFC qualification for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.

A ceremony to honor renowned veteran painter, writer and journalist Parviz Kalantari will be held on April 17 at Ashian Naghsh-o-Mehr Art Gallery.

The famous German writer and Nobel Prize winner Günter Grass died of a lung infection on Monday, April 13, in the northern German city of Lübeck. Deutsche Welle reported.

Born in 1927, his…

The play ‘Flight of Icarus’ written by Hossein Pakdel and directed by Muhammad Hatami was recently on stage at Iranshahr Theater Complex in Tehran.

The screenplay, which took a year to…

Daniel Radcliffe is reportedly in negotiations to star in ‘Grand Theft Auto’ (GTA), an upcoming film centered on the hugely popular video game and its creator.

The Persian translations of three books, namely ‘An Inch and a Half of Glory’, ‘The Collector of Worlds’, and ‘A Fair Maiden’ have been recently published.

 ‘An Inch and a Half of…

Iran defeated the US 5-3 to win the championship at the United World Wrestling Freestyle World Cup for the fourth consecutive year.

April 12 coincided with the death anniversary of one of the most celebrated Iranian contemporary painters Abbas Katouzian.

A memorandum of understanding to promote cinematic productions was signed between the ministry of cooperatives, labor and welfare and House of Cinema on Saturday.