Art And Culture
Iran art and culture news, Read the most current stories about art and culture in Iran including exhibition, movies, theatre and music news.
October 26, 2021 19:10
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May 20,2018Hirozazu Kore-eda’s “Shoplifters” won the Palme d’Or as the best film of the 71st Cannes Film Festival. -
May 19,2018Ali Abbasi’s genre-bending Nordic puzzler “Border” won the top prize in the Cannes Film Festival’s Un...
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May 19,2018The play “Burned Oaks” that reflects on the ongoing plight of Iranian victims of chemical weapons used by Iraq during the eight-year-old conflict in the 1980s will go on stage at Mehrab Theater...
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May 19,2018Painter and sketch artist Morteza Yazdani is showing at Mah Art Gallery in Tehran a series of paintings reflecting his contemplation on ancient Iranian myths. “Habitat” is Yazdani’s exhibit...
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May 19,2018Visual artist Dariush Nahdaran is displaying his collection of photos and video installations at...
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May 19,2018The iconic Azadi Tower in southwest Tehran will host “Dolls Through Time,” an exhibition of traditional dolls.
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May 19,2018An adaptation of “Between Worlds” a play by Franco-Belgian playwright Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt is on stage at Senoqteh Theater House. It is a metaphysical suspense drama between dream and reality,...
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May 19,2018Sakoo Art School in Tehran hosted the first painting exhibition by veteran actor and assistant director Reza Babak on Friday. According to the director of the school Narges Soleymanzadeh, the...
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May 19,2018The Persian translation of “Art of Dying” written by acclaimed French author Paul Morand...
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May 19,2018A fake rock painting by Banksy, an anonymous England-based graffiti artist and political...
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May 18,2018Tehran Flute Choir is to release a new album by summer from its musical performances in European concerts. The album will feature two musical collections including tracks from the ensemble’s...
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May 18,2018Poet, translator, literary researcher and freelance journalist Farideh Hassanzadeh-Mostafavi has released a book on cats, titled “The Four-Legged Qalandars: Footprints of Cats in Poetry, Stories,...
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May 18,2018The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is hosting an exhibition of art mediums that mixes historical and...
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May 18,2018Film fans can buy movie tickets for half price for shows from noon until evening and watch films in cinemas till daybreak during the fasting month of Ramadan (started May 17). Following the trend...
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May 18,2018Bust of celebrated Persian poet Ferdowsi (935-1020) was unveiled in Nicosia on the National Ferdowsi Day (May 15). The statue, a present from the Foreign Ministry in Tehran, has been placed in the...
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May 18,2018Ethnic music from Khorasan region will be heard Saturday night at Roudaki Hall. The concert is the third and last performance by the three ensembles -- Saba, Simorgh and Zhendepil --...
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May 18,2018Dutch art dealer Jan Six made the discovery of a lifetime at an auction house in 2016, when he saw the...
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May 16,2018Contemporary Persian poet Mohammad Shams Langeroodi, unveiled a music album based on his poems on May 14 at the central branch of Book City in Tehran. Langeroodi recites his poems in ‘’The Endless...
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May 16,2018Godfather Café is set to have a single screening of “Shame” a film by Swedish director, writer and producer Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) on May 20. In 1968, at the height of the Vietnam War,...
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May 16,2018Balkan Can Kino Film Festival, held at the Communitism Cultural Association of Athens, will be screening seven Iranian short animations on Friday. Founded in 2017, Balkan Can Kino is a space...
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May 16,2018A collection of glass paintings created on the basis of the illustrations in an old lithograph of Shahnameh (book of kings) is on view at Malek National Museum and Library in Tehran The exhibition...
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May 16,2018Es’haq Aqaei will open his “Something Like Life” exhibition at Iranian Artist Forum in Tehran on Friday. The one-week event is a collection of photos depicting life, traditions and handicrafts of...
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May 16,2018The directorial debut of Navid Mahmoudi’s ‘Parting’ is on the screen at selected cinemas. An Afghan-Iranian film made in 2016, it is set almost entirely in Tehran and is about two young Afghan...
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May 16,2018A group of artists visited the city of Shushtar in the southern province of Khuzestan and spent time near the Historical Hydraulic System in the city and made paintings of the complex irrigation...
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May 16,2018A group of visual artists will celebrate National Khayyam Day (May18) by holding an exhibition at Hepta Art Gallery in Tehran on May 18-30. The exhibition commemorates the eleventh century Persian...
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