Art And Culture

Iranian short films are participating in the third edition of the Kashmir World Film Festival, June 19-25, in Srinagar, the largest city of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir.

The 1977 drama “The Report,” first feature film by the late auteur Abbas Kiarostami is to have one screening at Raj Gallery on June 24, Tiwall reported.

Based on a screenplay by…

Raj Gallery is set for a single screening of the 1944 noir mystery drama “Double Indemnity” on June 26.

The film is directed by Billy Wilder, and co-written by Wilder and Raymond…

Masoudieh, 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…

On 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)…

Architecture 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…

A 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…

The 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…

The 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…

Iranian 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.

A 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.

Tehran 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…

With over 7,000 oil barrels, Bulgarian-American sculptor, photographer and conceptual artist Christo Javacheff, 83, has installed a 600-ton, 20-meter high floating sculpture on the lake of…

The feature film “No Date, No Signature” written and directed by Vahid Jalilvand has won the best director award at the 12th Andrei Tarkovsky International Film Festival “Zerkalo” (Mirror) in…

Folk 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,…

Saba 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…

A 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” (…

Autobiographical novella “Quiet Days in Clichy” written by the American writer Henry Miller is available in Persian.

Seoul International Book Fair 2018 will open June 20 with the participation of Iranian publishers.   Based at the Coex Convention Center in Gangnam-gu in the South Korean capital, the…

A silkscreen print by American-Austrian graphic designer, photographer, sculptor and interior designer Herbert Bayer (1900-1985), kept at Sa’dabad Cultural Complex in Tehran, is being restored…

The Disney and Pixar production premiered to an estimated $180 million at the domestic box office this weekend. The sequel to the popular 2004 animation soared past the record for biggest…

Wetpaint Gallery in Gloucestershire, UK, is showing “Contemporary Art of the Middle East.”

Featuring paintings and sculptures, the exhibition is organized in association with Janet Rady…

Young 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…

A 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…

Spanish film critic, journalist, cinema historian and writer Carlos F. Heredero has been invited by the Iranian National School of Cinema to hold a workshop on film studies.