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 04,2018Ronak Folk Band, led by singer and daf player Kayvan Ali-Mohammadi, will perform at Soureh Hall of Hozeh-Honari (Art Forum), affiliated to the Islamic Propagation Organization. On May 11, the... -
May 04,2018The play “For the Ones With Iron Helmets” is underway at Tehran’s Mehregan Theater from May 2-18. Written, directed and performed by Pejman Abdi, the play, staged for the third time in Tehran, is...
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May 04,2018A collection of 135 art pieces by acclaimed British sculptor Tony Cragg opened in San’ati Museum of Contemporary Art in Kerman, Kerman Province, on Thursday. An exhibition of 35 sculptures...
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May 04,2018Oscar-winning filmmaker Asghar Farhadi’s psychological thriller “Everybody Knows” will go on French screens after it has its world premiere while opening the 71st Cannes Film Festival on May 8. On...
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May 04,2018Lira Duo has scheduled a live concert at Roudaki Hall for May 10. Composer and pianist Arash Hazhirazad and violinist Yeganeh Hosseininia will perform Hazhirazad’s 2017 album “Tehran-Mars.” The...
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May 04,2018The National Museum of Iran has uploaded a digital edition of Masalik Va Mamalik (Traditions and Countries) written by Iranian geographer and traveler of the 10th century Abu Is’haq Istakhri on its...
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May 04,2018The Swedish Academy said the Nobel Prize in literature will not be awarded this year following sex-abuse...
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May 04,2018Acclaimed composer, musician and orchestra conductor Nasser Cheshmazar passed away on Friday in Tehran. He died of cardiac arrest at Bahonar Hospital in north Tehran at the age of 68, Honaronline...
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May 04,2018Pop and rock singer, composer, guitarist and actor Reza Yazdani is to perform two concerts at Milad Tower on May 8. Yazdani’s performance is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. at the Convention...
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May 02,2018The 58th Annecy International Animation Festival, slated for June 11-16, has selected four Iranian animated films for different sections. Three short films are to participate in the main...
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May 02,2018The cinematheque of Qolhak Cineplex will have a single screening of “Death of Stalin,” a 2017 political satire directed and co-written by Armando Iannucci, on May 4, the venue’s website wrote. ...
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May 02,2018“Under Zero” written and directed by Alireza Seyyed is being staged at Divar-e-Chaharom (fourth wall) Theater House in Tehran. The play, which has a comedic and grotesque atmosphere, includes four...
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May 02,2018Iran’s National Orchestra conducted by veteran composer Fereydoun Shahbazian will perform at Tehran’s Vahdat Hall, featuring traditional Persian vocalist and composer Vahid Taj as the singer of the...
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May 02,2018Ali Shokri, a nature photographer from Tabriz, will exhibit a small sample of his works at Mojdeh Art Gallery in Tehran. From May 4-14, a total of 11 black-and-white photographs selected from a...
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May 02,2018The 1997 drama “Taste of Cherry” directed by world-renowned Iranian auteur Abbas Kiarostami (1940-2016) is set to have one screening at Iranian Artists Forum on May 7, Tiwall reported. It is a...
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May 02,2018The 1960 American psychological horror film “Psycho” directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock is scheduled for a single screening on May 5 at the cinematheque of Qolhak Cineplex. Starring Antony...
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May 02,2018Iranian movies have been the major winner of the Ninth Norway Tamil Film Festival that ran from April 26-29 in Oslo. A total of nine films from Iran participated in the event, where five features...
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May 02,2018European Parliament has voted to adopt tighter regulations for the art market to combat money laundering.
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April 30,2018Sa’dabad Cultural Historical Complex in northern Tehran has opened an exhibition of glass handicrafts. The expo was inaugurated on April 28 during a brief ceremony attended by Pouya Mahmoudian,...
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April 30,2018“Existence From Two Viewpoints” is the title of one of the books recently released by Negah-e Moaser Publications. Written by researcher Eskandar Salehi in Persian, the book provides an analysis...
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April 30,2018Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art on Sunday unveiled in its public space a new statue donated by acclaimed British sculptor Tony Cragg. The gigantic 320 cm by 158 cm marble sculpture titled “Roots...
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April 30,2018Book City Institute in Tehran has organized a session in German for discussing contemporary literature in German-speaking countries on Tuesday. The meeting will be attended by three guests,...
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April 30,2018The six feature films and one animated movie, which have been screened since a week before the beginning of the Iranian New Year (started March 21), have grossed $12 million at the box office after...
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April 30,2018Tehran-based Peydayesh publications has recently released a Persian translation of the young adults’ novel “The Glass Children” by Swedish political scientist and writer Kristina Ohlsson....
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April 30,2018Disney and Marvel continue to push the superhero envelope at the box office, with “Avengers: Infinity War”...
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