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.&nbsp;</p>

  • The exhibition ‘Otto Piene – Rainbow’ at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Arts in cooperation with the Goethe-Institute, Galerie Breckner and DHL Arts will open on February 24.

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  • Actor Hamid Farrokhnejad severely censured officials, especially those in the oil ministry for the problems that continue to persist in the southern cities of Abadan and Khorramshahr, 25…

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  • The second day of the Fajr International Music festival saw a superb performance of piano and bass clarinet by Italian and Austrian musicians.

    The duet, performed Saturday night, in the…

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  • A portrait of the Barcelona star Lionel Messi by Damien Hirst has fetched $556,000 at Sotheby’s London auction.

    Thursday’s sale of football-themed works at Sotheby’s, London, featured 18…

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  • Morteza Shaabani’s sculptures display “a sort of interaction between script and shape” attributed to 10 years of studying transcriptions and structures of the Achaemenid era and the symbols used…

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  • Two innovative women entrepreneurs have set up a knitwear enterprise called ‘Mehrbaf’ to encourage creativity and innovation among female workers as well as to help their families advance…

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  • The Iranian film ‘A Minor Leap Down,’ directed by Hamed Rajabi was chosen on Friday for the jury prize in the Panorama Section of the International Federation of Film Critics or Federation…

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  • A creative Asian artist recently presented a stunning mural made of 20,000 tea bags.

    Hong Yi, from Malaysia, also known as Red, never ceases to amaze her fans with her works created by…

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  • The use of traditional designs as ornamental work on leather craft, an innovation of a local artist, has achieved popularity among the Iranian Diaspora.

    Forough Kord, the artist, makes…

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  • Moving up 10 places in the latest FIFA rankings, Iran’s national football team continues to be the highest ranked Asian nation.

    According to Varzesh3 website, in the February edition of…

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  • Music is the most scientific form of art and such a definition of music “is not an exaggeration,” Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Ali Jannati said in a message to the organizers of the…

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  • Swiss authorities have seized a long-lost portrait attributed to Leonardo da Vinci from a bank vault in Lugano. They followed orders of the Italian authorities, which claimed it had been illegally…

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  • Niloufar Eskandariyan who is educated in graphic design, in addition to her activities in the field of advertising, makes clay jewelries. “No one has yet used clay for making jewelry in the…

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  • The 33rd edition of the Fajr International Film Festival has come to an end with ‘The Crazy Rook’ by the renowned director Abolhassan Davoudi winning five Crystal Simorghs in the main national…

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  • An exhibition of 40 years of cinematic posters by well-known artist Ebrahim Haghighi was inaugurated at Milad Tower’s art gallery on Monday.

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  • The ‘coming of age’ ceremony of girl students in Iran’s southern Fars Province was held at the Shah Cheragh holy shrine in Shiraz Saturday (Feb. 7).

    The ceremony is held for girls at age 9…

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  • The Prelate of Armenians in Tehran and north Iran Archbishop Sebouh Sarkisian referring to the violent incidents in France last month said “insulting the Holy Prophet of Islam and publication of…

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  • The culture ministry “is dedicated in its efforts to spread wisdom with the assistance of writers and thinkers,” the deputy minister of culture and Islamic guidance said in a meeting with…

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  • The recorded history of Iran’s civilization goes back to the third millennium BCE, and their textile production goes back even farther. Situated between the Caspian Sea and the…

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  • On the sidelines of the 7th Fajr International Festival of Visual Arts and following the campaign of ‘Prophet of Kindness’ initiated by Iranian visual artists, an exhibition displaying works on…

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  • The national stage of the Qur’an contest for Iran’s visually-impaired will be held in Tehran later this month.

    The Awqaf and Charity Affairs Organization, Tehran’s District 3 Municipality…

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  • A two-day Olympiad festival of local games and traditions took place in Tangestan county, Bushehr Province, southern Iran, on February 6, 7 with participants from 13 provinces.

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  • A talking animated sponge knocked a Navy Seal sharpshooter from the top of the box office chart as ‘The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water’ took $56 million in ticket sales, deposing ‘American…

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  • In the unveiling ceremony of the book ‘Gilan, Viewed Through Historical Postcards’, Prof. Carlo Cereti said, “Europeans’ view of Iran is limited to Isfahan and the dry south, but Iran has also…

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  • The first Iranian musical audio book, ‘A Heart Bigger than the World’, was unveiled at Farrokhi Hall of Qasr Museum recently.

    The musical album conveys the message of “peace” in Persian,…

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