Art And Culture

Mojdeh Art Gallery in Tehran has put a large collection of photographs for sale.

The Summer Photo Sale opened August 24 and will run through August 31 at the gallery located at No. 27,…

The 5th International Biennial of Persian Calligraphy opened Saturday at the Sa’d al-Saltaneh Caravanserai in Qazvin.

A total of 215 calligraphers from 25 provinces are showing their…

Khaneh Mehr Reza, a charity in Tehran, has launched a program dedicated to screening a series of documentaries, mainly on social ills, with the objective of alleviating social maladies and…

Iranshahr Art Gallery is displaying a collection of paintings by prolific painter and sketch artist Morteza Khosravi. Portraits, still life, architecture and urban landscapes, house interiors…

Taraneh-Baran Art Gallery in Tehran is taking part in the 1st International Tourism Economy and Investment Expo, offering services related to art tourism.

To commemorate the legendary actor Ezzatolah Entezami, the Iranian Artists Forum will hold a retrospective of his works.

Known as ‘Master Actor’ in Iranian cinema for his numerous roles…

The theatrical work “Hearing” written and directed by Amir-Reza Koohestani will be staged at the Ingmar Bergman International Theater Festival of Sweden.

Named after internationally…

An exhibition of photography accompanied with live music performance opened on Friday at Saye Art Gallery in Tehran where artists seek to visualize their take on a poem by contemporary poet…

An absurd drama by French Romanian playwright Eugène Ionesco is on stage at Shahrzad Theater until September 11.

The play “Exit the King” is about facing one’s own disintegration.…

A play adaptation of the famous novella “The Little Prince” written by French author Antoine de Saint Exupery (1900-1944) is on stage at Iranshahr Theater.

The third edition of Health Film Festival aiming at promoting movies on topics related to healthcare and highlighting the role and significance of health opened in Tehran on Thursday at Charsou…

Art and Experience cinematic group has organized the Serbian Film Week in Tehran, Shiraz and Tabriz, August 23-29, screening seven award winning works from the Balkan nation.

Iranian Artists Forum will host a meeting where architects are to discuss mass and space in urban fabrics.

Paper Memories is the name given to an exhibition commemorating the prominent designer Jahangir Darvish on his 85th birth anniversary. Born in Varamin, a city in southeast of Tehran Province,…

Documentary and Experimental Film Center in Tehran is going to screen a movie on the lives of stray and homeless animals. “Animal Club,” directed by documentary director Hadi Afarideh, will be…

A psychological book about well-known fairy tales by a Swiss Jungian scholar, Marie-Louise von Franz, has been translated into Persian.

In “The Feminine in Fairy Tales” the author…

A fusion concert of tar and guitar will be staged by Koochi Band on August 29 at Niavaran Cultural Center in north Tehran.

The 2nd Show of Hands Festival, an event for solo improvisations is to be held September 1-6 at Niavaran Cultural Center in north Tehran.

The festival is dedicated to string and plucked…

Majlis Jumeirah Grand Mosque in Dubai is holding a photo exhibition celebrating the world’s most beautiful mosques.

Dubbed “Mosques of the World,” the exhibit features works of 32…

Acclaimed master of traditional music and vocalist Shahram Nazeri will give two concerts in the south of the country and in Tehran.

The first of the two concerts is slated for August 29…

Vista Art Gallery in Tehran will hold an exhibition featuring 100 paintings by Kourosh Sarmadi.  Dubbed “Zero and One” the exhibit will be a showcase of portraits Sarmadi has made in small…

To help raise public awareness about the significance of water and promote judicious water consumption, Laleh Art Gallery in Tehran has set up a group exhibition it calls “Water.”

The 25th International Congress of the German Middle East Studies Association (DAVO) is slated for October 4-6 at Goethe University Frankfurt. This year’s congress incorporates the conference on…

A play based on the well known children story, “The Little Black Fish” by prominent author Samad Behrangi (1939-1967) will go on stage at Paliz Theater in Tehran on August 23 until September 7…

A fantasy novella by Romanian author Mircea Eliade is available in Persian.

The book, “Youth Without Youth,” written in 1976, has been translated by Farhad Bigdelou and published by…