Art And Culture

Horror film “Invasion” directed by Shahram Mokri is present at the 17th Transylvania International Film Festival in Romania, May 25-June 3.

Written and directed by Mokri, the feature was…

What visitors see in Ebrat Museum could rather be sickening. 

Ebrat Museum is an old building from first Pahlavi period (1925-1941). It was the first modern prison in Iran and was…

Book Garden has extended its working hours during the fasting month of Ramadan (started May 17).

The vast cultural complex, located in the Abbasabad Hills, southeast of Vanak Square, is…

Nima Eghlima’s first feature film “Amir” has been accepted in the 53rd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czech Republic, June 29-July 7. According to Hollywood Reporter, the film…

The feature film “Dressage” by Pooya Badkoobeh is to be screened at Sydney Film Festival and Cines Del Sur Festival de Granada.

Architects will discuss “Architecture and Recycling” at a meeting on Wednesday in Tehran.

The meeting is organized by the Science and Research Department of the Faculty of Art and…

Features and documentaries made in the country are to be screened at the 5th Iranian Film Festival in Cologne, Germany on May 31- June 3.

Four feature films and nine documentaries from…

Painter, sculptor and print artist Samila Amir-Ebrahimi is presenting her latest series of paintings at Hoor Art Gallery. Her “Things and Places” opened May 25 and will run through June 15,…

An adaptation of the celebrated British playwright and poet William Shakespeare’s tragedy “Macbeth” is on stage at Shahraz Theater in Tehran.

In “Macbeth Zar,” writer and director…

Persian novel “Don’t Talk About Your Dreams in This House” written by Abbas Salami has been released across the country by Hilla Publication. 

According to the Persian website of…

Among the recently released books of Cheshmeh Publication is a Persian rendering of the 2006 novel by French writer Jean Teulé, titled “Suicide Shop”. 

The book has been translated…

Hofex Home Selection 2018, an exhibition of furniture is slated for August 15-18 at Tehran Permanent Fairground.

It is the 27th International Exhibition of Home Furniture to be held in…

Selected drawings by German visual artist and author Olaf Probst are on display at Didi Art & Culture Center in the Caspian town of Noor in northern Mazandaran Province. 

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Hamptons International Film Festival in New York, will kick off the 10th anniversary of its SummerDocs series with a documentary on the legendary American actor and comedian Robin Williams (1951…

Iranian-Armenian composer and orchestra conductor Loris Tjeknavorian released on Saturday the symphonic poem “Cyrus the Great” that took three years to complete. It is available in CD format.

Veteran musician Ardeshir Kamkar will conduct a two-day workshop in Yazd. 

The event, slated for May 31 and June 1, will be held at Raz Music Institute, Honaronline reported on its…

A group exhibition of street art is underway at Seyhoun Art Gallery.

Titled “For Your Consideration,” the exhibit opened May 24 and, except on Mondays, will run through June 6 at the…

Haft Samar Art Gallery is hosting a solo exhibition of paintings created by Nasim Zolfaqar.

Famous Persian novel “My Bird” written by the contemporary writer Fariba Vafi has been published in Spanish. It is translated by Alessandra Laurenti and published by Portaculturas in Spain, the…

Kish Island in the Persian Gulf is hosting two exhibitions to increase awareness about organ donation and the lives that can be saved.

The events “Organ Donation After Death” and “I Will…

The winner of the 2017 Prix Goncourt, a prize in French literature given by the académie Goncourt to the author of the best and most imaginative prose work of the year, is available for Persian…

Five books were shortlisted for the “Golden” Man Booker International Prize, the special award considered for a novel to be crowned the best work of fiction released over the last 50 years.

Two acclaimed traditional singers of different generations are to conduct a joint concert tour across the country.

Hossein Khajeh Amiri, 85, known as Iraj, and Salar Aghili, 40, are…

Actor Nasser Malek Motiee passed away on Saturday at Atieh Hospital in Tehran at the age of 88.

Malek Motiee was hospitalized last week due to kidney failure and dyspnea. After a few…

The short animation “Nobody” written and directed by Elham Toroghi is to be screened at three international festivals.