Art And Culture

In the 11th century Rey district in south Tehran was one of the capital cities of the Seljuk Empire (1037-1194). Founder of the empire is said to be buried under a 24-sided tower still standing…

Mellat Park on Valiasr Street is one of the largest urban parks in Iran where one can go for long strolls, see the old trees or do some outdoor workout.

World’s first digital art museum opened in Tokyo by teamLab, a pioneering interdisciplinary creative group of “ultra-technologists,” with offices in Japan, Singapore and China.

The Wagner Garden Carpet - a late 17th-century Persian carpet never before seen in the US - is on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in a special exhibition titled “Eternal…

A dark satirical novel of love, revenge and the 1950s haute couture written by Australian author Rosalie Ham is translated in Persian. Titled “The Dressmaker,” it was translated by Maryam Sa’…

The Novel “Henderson the Rain King” written by award winning Canadian writer Saul Bellow is now available in Persian.

E1 Gallery in Tehran is holding a group painting exhibition featuring works of women artists.

Named "This is Me" after a poem by the eminent poet and filmmaker Forough Farrokhzad (1935-…

A photomontage exhibition at Daargoun Gallery in Tehran has opened to commemorate the modern painter and poet Mohammad-Ebrahim Jafari (1940-2018).

The group exhibit includes photo…

Flamenco guitarist and cajon player Behrouz Aqaee will lead a flamenco concert on Wednesday at Niavaran Cultural Center in north Tehran. Aqaee, a self-taught musician and instructor, will play…

Sanandaj, capital of Kurdistan Province, is hosting an exhibition  of illustrations selected from the lineups of the Biennial of Illustration Bratislava in Slovakia.

A total of 42…

The 35th Tehran International Short Film Festival, slated for November, will accept submissions latest by July 23.

TISFF will screen short films (less than 30 minutes) in four categories…

Five films by the prominent filmmaker and screenwriter Sohrab Shahid-Saless (1944-1998) are to be screened in selected cinemas in Tehran, Shiraz, Mashhad, Kerman, Isfahan, Babol and Tabriz for…

The cultural institute of Maktab Tehran is organizing a series of meetings to review and analyze Mozart operas. 

Operas by Austrian composer and pianist Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (…

Art students across the US are reeling in the face of recent news that their schools, part of the Art Institute system, will close by year’s end. Altogether, 18 schools are no longer accepting…

Ten paintings by veteran artist Hossein Mahjoubi will be on sale at his personal gallery from July 16.

Located at No. 4, Gol-Mohammadi Dead-end, 18th Street, Bucharest Street, Argentina…

Mah Art Gallery is hosting an exhibition of artworks by French-Iranian painter Ghasem Hajizadeh.

Titled “Qajar,” the exhibit offers 19 paintings, mostly human figures, which Hajizadeh…

City Theater in Tehran will host the play “Farwell My Cherry Orchard”, a play written and directed by Sara Mokhavat from July 18.  It has a surreal atmosphere and follows the highly…

A musical play directed by veteran theater director Mohammad Rahmanian is on stage at Iranshahr Theater in Tehran.

“Leyla and a Few Travelers” includes a group of professional theater…

Traditional vocalist and player of setar and santur Hesameddin Seraj will hold six concerts in Mashhad on July 19-21.

Portraits of Yazd luminaries have been compiled in a recently-published book “The Countenance of Notables: the Portraiture of Renowned Characters of Yazd.”

Released by Apama Publication…

An adaptation of the Greek tragedy of Hippolytus written by Euripides is to be staged at Tehran Independent Theater, July 22-August 22.

Prominent filmmaker Tahmineh Milani is to chair the jury at the 8th Sakhalin International Film Festival in Sakhalin, a Russian island in the Pacific Ocean, north of Japan. The other jury…

A group sculpture exhibition organized by the Association of Iranian Sculptors opened on Friday at the Iranian Artists Forum and will run for until July 24.

The exhibit “Four Corners of…

Acclaimed traditional singer Salar Aghili intends to hold two concerts on July 25-26 at Vahdat Hall in Tehran.

America’s longest painting went on display on Saturday at the New Bedford Whaling Museum in Massachusetts.

In 2017, the Museum completed the conservation of the 1,275-foot-long (390…