Art And Culture

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  • Iranian stand-up comedian Hasan Reyvandi will hold two shows in England in December. He will perform in two cities of London and Manchester on December 17 and 18 respectively.

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  • Art and Experience Cinematic Group in collaboration with the Brazil Embassy will show seven Brazilian short films, documentaries, and narrative feature films for a week in Tehran, Isfahan and…

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  • ‘Colonel’, a play written and directed by Iranian playwright, theater director and actor Kheirollah Taqyanipour, is to be performed at City Theater in Tehran. The story is about a 35-year-old…

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  • Nobel Prize in medicine is awarded to three Americans for work on circadian rhythm, a roughly 24 hour biological cycle in the physiological processes of living beings.

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  • An exhibition of artworks by the late sculptor and painter Asghar Mohammadi (1938-1985) will be held at Vista Art Gallery.

    The works to be displayed are collected by the artist’s sister…

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  • Painter Sourena Zamani, 27, has put his oil-on-canvas works on display at Mohsen Art Gallery.

    The ‘Still Life: Act/Transparency,’ his solo exhibit, opened September 22 and will run…

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  • ‘Past Continuous’ is an ongoing solo photo exhibit on ruins and old buildings by photographer Tahmineh Monzavi, 29.

    The event opened in late summer at Silk Road Gallery and will run…

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  • The annual art sale at Knack Gallery is coming to an end at its venue on No. 7, Sina Alley, Farzan Street, Zafar neighborhood.

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  • The jury of the documentary section of the 34th Tehran International Short Film Festival has selected 27 short documentaries from among 264 entries to compete in the national section of the…

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  • Iranian academic publishers are to hold a meeting with the president of the International Publishers Association (IPA) Michiel Kolman and Nasser Kanani, an Iranian author and translator, based…

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  • The Iranian play ‘Eastern Night’ written and directed by Naseh Kamgari is currently on stage at City Theater.

    It shows the meaning of ‘love’ in the orient and in western cultures and…

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  • The Iranian play ‘The Good Soldier Schweik’, a free adaptation of a book by the same title written by a Czech writer, journalist, humorist and satirist Jaroslav Hasek, is currently being…

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  • Theater director Ayoub Aghakhani has written and directed a play named ‘At 7:00 O’clock of the Seventh Day of Fall’, in which, he narrates the life story of Mohammad Jahanara, an Iranian…

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  • A group of Japanese engineers visit a neighborhood in Tehran to erect a telecommunication tower and are offering good money to raise the tower in one of the old houses in the neighborhood. This…

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  • British actress Audrey Hepburn’s script for the 1961 drama film Breakfast at Tiffany’s fetched more than £630,000 ($844,000), seven times its pre-sale estimate, when it went under the…

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  • Writer and university instructor Leili Anvar has been selected as secretary general of the first International Festival of Persian Speaking Communities in Europe to be held at Paris in January…

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  • The feature film ‘Yeva,’ written and directed by Iranian-Armenian filmmaker Anahid Abad, 55, has been selected as Armenia’s official submission to the 90th Academy Awards in the Best…

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  • Acclaimed Turkish multidisciplinary artist Hale Tenger will address the 7th edition of Tehran National Sculpture Biennial (September 5-October 14) at Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art. Tenger…

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  • The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince), the most famous book by French writer and poet Antoine de Saint-Exupery has come out as a bilingual art therapy coloring book.

    Aradman Publication in…

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  • ‘Salaam Mumbai’ a joint production of Iran cinema and Bollywood, has been purchased and dubbed by Pen N International Company, an Indian film production and distribution company,…

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  • The Iranian Artists Forum (IAF) in Tehran is hosting a photo collection on rituals of the mourning month of Muharram by the late photojournalist Ali Reza Soltanishad. Soltanishad was among the…

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  • The official celebration of the World Tourism Day was held on Wednesday in Doha, Qatar, in the framework of the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development 2017.

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  • The fifth edition of the Khayyam International Exhibition of Photography has issued a call for submission of works until December 23.

    Categories defined for the works include ‘open…

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  • Tahmineh Milani, acclaimed Iranian film director and screenwriter, is working on a screenplay adaption of a fictional book on teens entitled ‘The Percipients of Planet Ourac’.

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  • Eight years after the first Avatar captured movie halls, Avatar 2 to 5 are finally beginning production, reported Slash Film (slashfilm.com), a US-based movie website.

    The much-…

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