Art And Culture

An episodic film on Hormuz Island in the southern province of Hormuzgan is to be produced by six known directors.

‘Tales of Hormuz’ is suggested as the title of the film. It will be in…

Parts of Bosnian writer Safvet Beg Bašagić’s collection of Islamic manuscripts are on display at an exhibition in the National Library in Tehran.

On view at the library’s Museum of Book…

Hepta Art Gallery features paintings by painter and sketch artist Tannaz Tavasoli.

Titled ‘Agaze,’ the exhibit is of 20 acrylic-on-board paintings she has created over 18 months.

An exhibition by painter Hossein Tamjid is underway at Homa Art Gallery.

Letters, words and flowers are the subjects of the paintings. ‘Discreet Charm’ opened April 20 and will end on…

The latest book by the writer for children and young adults Majid Shafiei, printed by Peydayesh publications, will be unveiled at the 31st Tehran International Book Fair slated for May 2-12.…

An adaptation of murder mystery play ‘The Mousetrap’ written by renowned English writer Agatha Christie in 1952 is to be performed in Tehran in early May.

Christie (1890-1976) is known…

Majewski held a one-day workshop on directing in the Talent Campus section of the ongoing Fajr International Film Festival at Tehran’s Charsou Cineplex on Saturday. The session was designed for…

Selected works by New York-based Iranian painter Kamran Yousefzadeh, known as Y. Z. Kami, 62, is hung at Ab-Anbar Art Gallery in Tehran.

A photography exhibition is underway at Tehran’s Charsou Cineplex to mark the 120th anniversary of cinema in Iran.

Manager of Special Events Program of the 36th Fajr International Film…

Composer, singer, oud, tar and guitar player Milad Derakhshani will be on stage at Vahdat, the iconic hall in Tehran.

The live concert is slated for April 28. Derakhshani and…

Foreign and Iranian students of the Talent Campus of the 36th Fajr International Film Festival attended a workshop on film editing chaired by one of the world’s best in the field, Italian editor…

Tehran-based 7-Eghlim Art and Culture Institute is inviting prominent writers to a series of discourse sessions to create the grounds for those new in the field of writing to learn from their…

Celebrated Persian poet and writer Ahmad-Reza Ahmadi is to open his first painting exhibition on April 27 at Cama Art Gallery in Tehran.

Bearing the name of one of his popular books ‘…

Pop singer, songwriter and actor Farzad Farzin will perform on April 27 at Milad Tower in north Tehran.

At the Convention Center of the tower, he will sing at 7 and 10:30 pm. Tickets are…

Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art has organized the third Tehran Contemporary Music Festival.

TCMF is an international event in the fields of contemporary  music. It is an…

Celebrated Lurish composer, singer, songwriter and author Iraj Rahmanpour will perform on April 27.

Sa’di of Shiraz, the eminent 13th century Persian poet, will be commemorated on the occasion of his national day in Iran on April 21.

UpArtMaan Cultural Center will hold a meeting on the comparative analysis of the popular novel ‘Blindness’ written by Portuguese author José Saramago and its adapted film of namesake title…

The 2017 mystery/drama ‘You Were Never Really Here’ directed by Lynne Ramsay will have a single screening on April 22 at Raj Gallery.

It is about Joe, a combat veteran and former FBI…

Filmmakers Ava DuVernay and Denis Villeneuve and actors Kristen Stewart and Léa Seydoux will serve on the jury of the 71st Cannes Film Festival, May 8-19.

Under…

E1 Art Gallery in Tehran is to hold a group exhibition curated by veteran visual artist Fereydoun Ave in collaboration with Dastan Art Gallery.  

Titled ‘Black and White’, the…

Traditional band Bamdad music ensemble will hold two concerts in the US.  The first is scheduled for April 20 at Santa Clara University of California and second on April 22 at Humanities…

Prominent translator, researcher and lexicographer Gholam Hossein Sadri Afshar passed away on Tuesday Tehran. He was 84. 

Veteran theater actor Parviz Mamnoon will hold a workshop on Naqqali at the Institute for Promotion of Contemporary Art in Tehran from April 30-May 4. 

The winners of 2018 Pulitzer Prizes, awards for excellence and achievements in newspaper, magazine, online journalism, literature and musical composition in the US, were announced Monday at…