The 11th annual Iranian Film Festival in San Francisco will be held in late September.
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.
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06/21/2018Photos of the abandoned village of Koker in Rudbar County, Gilan Province, will go on view Friday at a solo exhibition in Tehran. Lifestyle and landscape photographer Alireza Elahi is to present... -
06/20/2018A collection of paintings by veteran artists is on display at the Iranian Artists Forum in Tehran until June 26. The group exhibition features works of 42 artists from the Association of Iranian... -
06/20/2018The 400-year-old walls of the gallery of Safavi House in Isfahan Province are displaying works of Persian calligraphy and page illuminations created by a group of artists. Open to the public till... -
06/20/2018A documentary on drought in a village in Khorasan Razavi Province will be shown at the 12th International Traveling Film Festival on Water in Bangalore, India. Titled “Death of Kariz,” the movie... -
06/20/2018Masoudieh, a luxurious mansion from the Qajar era (1786-1925) is located in southwest of Baharestan Square in the southern part of the city. Most visitors remember the mansion first for its fine... -
06/20/2018With over 7,000 oil barrels, Bulgarian-American sculptor, photographer and conceptual artist Christo ... -
06/20/2018Architecture of old buildings in Gavart village in central Isfahan is to be studied at a meeting at the Imam Ali Religious Arts Museum in Tehran. According to the Persian website Honaronline, the... -
06/20/2018The Bidel Dehlavi Foundation says the fifth Bidel Dehlavi International Congress will be held July 5-6 in Tehran. Maulana Abul-Ma’ani Mirza Abdul-Qadir Bidel, better known as Bidel Dehlavi (1642–... -
06/20/2018Iranian Artists Forum in Tehran will host a ceremony on Wednesday to commemorate the late poet, translator and documentarian Houshang Azadivar who passed away last month at the age of 76.... -
06/20/2018Tehran Grand Bazaar, a huge maze of bustling corridors in south Tehran, offers visitors a unique shopping experience. To venture into the bazaar, one must first be free from any fear of crowds. It... -
06/20/2018On the northern flank of Tehran, where the city rises to meet mountains, there is a large complex of gardens and mansions built by monarchs of the Qajar (1786-1925) and Pahlavi (1925-1979)... -
06/19/2018The feature film “No Date, No Signature” written and directed by Vahid Jalilvand has won the best director... -
06/19/2018Saba Cultural Institute in Tehran, affiliated to the Iranian Academy of Arts (a cultural institution under the auspices of the Presidential Office) has organized a workshop on page illumination (... -
06/19/2018A silkscreen print by American-Austrian graphic designer, photographer, sculptor and interior designer... -
06/19/2018Autobiographical novella “Quiet Days in Clichy” written by the American writer Henry Miller is available in Persian. The tender and nostalgic work is a spectacle of love, art and Bohemian life at... -
06/19/2018Folk music band Rastak has released a new album “Spring” (Bahar in Persian) in two audio and video editions. Spring is Rastak’s fifth album which, similar to the band’s previous albums, comprises... -
06/19/2018Seoul International Book Fair 2018 will open June 20 with the participation of Iranian publishers. -
06/19/2018A collection of essays by the celebrated Turkish-British author Elif Shafak has been translated in Persian by Saber Hosseini and published by Morvarid Publication. Titled “Şemspare” (Pieces of the... -
06/19/2018The Disney and Pixar production premiered to an estimated $180 million at the domestic box office... -
06/18/2018Iranian Architecture Center in Tehran is to hold on Wednesday a seminar on “Façade Engineering,” one of the main elements in aesthetic of buildings and urban landscape. The center’s first seminar... -
06/18/2018Wetpaint Gallery in Gloucestershire, UK, is showing “Contemporary Art of the Middle East.” -
06/18/2018A group painting exhibition by 18 young artists is underway at Idea Gallery. “The View” features 25 oil and water color paintings about the views of the artists toward ordinary life, Honaronline... -
06/18/2018A group painting exhibition by nine young visual artists is being held at Shirin Art Gallery. Titled “Unrecognized Methods,” it includes paintings of various techniques from realism to abstract,... -
06/18/2018Vahdat Hall in Tehran is set to host two concerts with a repertoire of various works from Baroque to the 20th century. Slated for June 29-30, the concerts will be performed by an international... -
06/18/2018Young sculptor Maryam Rahimi has featured her solo artwork exhibition at Shirin Art Gallery in an exhibit that opened June 15 and will run until July 4. Titled Hyper Ego, it is a showcase of...
