Art And Culture

Khorasan’s veteran Dotar player Zolfaghar Asgarian passed away on Sunday after being hospitalized for a month with lung infection. He lost consciousness due to a drop in his blood platelet and…

Kayhan Kalhor, Iranian master of Kamancheh, is one of the soloists performing in Maryland, the US, on January 8 and 11, along with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra conducted by Marin Alsop.

The 9th Tehran International Animation Festival, a biennial event, is slated for March 8-12, 2015 in the Center for Cultural Creations of the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children…

An innovative and ambitious project ‘Mind Art’ allows physically challenged people to use their brainpower to create art using the technological advances of detonators and electrical signals.

Works by three young women artists Bita Vakili, Tahereh Samadi-Tari, and Bahar Behbahani will be on display till January 2, 2015 at the first group exhibition at Boom Gallery, marking the sixth…

A number of 276 works of Persian paintings in different fields of miniature, ‘Gol-o-Morq’ (flower and bird), ‘Tazhib’ (illumination) and ‘Siah-Qalam’ (literally ‘black pen’ - a term referring to…

‘The Bald Soprano’ by Eugene Ionesco is on stage at the Entezami Hall of the Iranian Artists’ Forum.

The play was first performed in a students’ festival and won the award for best…

Paris Photo is the premier international art fair for works in the photographic medium. This year the 18th edition of Paris Photo was held in the historical Grand Palais hosting leading…

A directive to allocate the requisite funding for reopening the Tehran Symphony Orchestra and Iran’s National Orchestra has been issued by Mohammad Bagher Nobakht, head of the Management and…

The Iranian Artists’ Forum (IAF) in Tehran is holding an international poster exhibition titled ‘Nelson Mandela: The Liberty Pigeon’ on the first death anniversary (December 5) of the South…

Monir Shahroudi-Farmanfarmaian, famous painter, illustrator, and mirror mosaic and reverse glass painting artist, visited Niavaran Cultural Center and expressed her appreciation and gratitude to…

‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul’ by Jeff Kinney is the ninth book in the illustrated series, and the sixth in a row to land at No. 1 of the bestselling books in the US.

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Shiraz should be designated as the cultural capital of Iran and the Islamic world, considering its rich history and culture, said head of the National Library and Archives Organization of Iran (…

Attended by a number of art and culture figures, the awards ceremony of the second Badi’ozzaman Foruzanfar Festival was held in Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art on December 3.

Renowned Iranian writer and film director Shahram Mokri will be presiding over the selection of Kannada (a southern Indian language) films for the Netpac (Network for Promotion of Asian Cinema)…

The house of Farrokhi Yazdi is to be restored and rendered into a meeting place for literary figures, according to Reza Sokhandan, his 95-year-old nephew, who has donated his uncle’s house to Iran…

An ‘Encyclopedia of Persian Carpets’ will be published in the next Iranian calendar year (starting March 21, 2015), said the head of the Iran Carpet Association.

In spite of extensive religious and cultural commonalities, the Islamic world still suffers from lack of adequate knowledge on mass media and ways and means of bridging the information gap, said…

Past winners Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi are again the leading contenders for the FIFA Ballon d'Or as the world's best player.

Ahmad Shamlou’s first poetry reading session held in November 1972, has been published by Ava-Khorshid publications and will be unveiled on December 9, 2014.

Jon Fosse’s ‘Autumn Dream’ directed by Farindokht Zahedi was staged at Shanghai International Contemporary Theater Festival (ACT).

If you happen to be walking through the woods in High Falls, New York and stumble upon a sizable, candy-colored house, don’t fret. You are not hallucinating, nor have you walked into a terrifying…

The Iranian film ‘I’m Not Angry’ was awarded the NETPAC Development Prize at the 2014 Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA).

Armenians have been living peacefully in Iran since 400 years ago and have cordial relations with their fellow citizens, Bishop Babken Charyan, the primate of the Armenians of central and southern…

Much to the book lover’s delight, the ‘Book Garden’ in Tehran will host permanent exhibitions and several related activities all year round. The idea of a book garden was first floated in 2004,…