Art And Culture

Scholars and experts specializing in the works by Persian poet Sa’di of Shiraz (1210-1292) and Italian poet Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374) known as Petrarch will meet in Tehran to share ideas on…

Molavi Hall is currently staging one of Shakespeare’s comedies ‘Twelfth Night’. The play will continue until  May 2. 

It is a comedy about a cross-dressing, ship-wreck…

The 9th Simorgh International Festival is slated for May 3-10 in Tehran.

Organized by the Ministry of Health and Medical Education, it comprises five categories namely theater, film,…

Parts of the life of the first king of Persia Cyrus the Great is being featured in a theatrical work on stage at Vahdat Hall.

Cyrus the Great (580-529 BC) was the founder of the…

On stage at Shano Theater House is ‘The Prisoner of Navvab Street’ by Houshmand Honarkar. 

The play is a loose adaptation of the 1975 black comedy ‘The Prisoner of Second Avenue’ by…

A new space has been created at the 36th Fajr International Film Festival, to be held in Tehran April 19-27, bringing together some of the best contemporary movies from Georgia’s fast growing…

Milos Forman, the Czech-born movie director who found fame in Hollywood with the Oscar-winning classics ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’ and ‘Amadeus’, has died at the age of 86, Czech news…

French actor Jean-Pierre Léaud, best known for his performance in Francois Truffaut’s ‘400 Blows’ and Jean Luc Godard’s ‘Masculin Feminin’, will attend the 36th Fajr International Film Festival…

French film production and distribution company Celluloid Dreams, based in Paris, has acquired world sales rights to Iranian director Jafar Panahi’s new film ‘3 Faces’ ahead of its world…

Newly established Shahrak Cineplex in Tehran will host a ceremony on Friday to honor the veteran actor Mohammad-Ali Keshavarz on the occasion of his 88th birthday. Amir-Pedram Alizadeh, the…

A conceptual ceramic art exhibition by potter, creative director, graphic designer and photographer Atena Ghaffari will be held at Abad Art Gallery.

Slated for April 13-27, the event…

Azad Art Gallery is showing a collection of paintings by Behnaz Qasemi.

Titled ‘Life, Dream and Fascination’, it is a display of a series of paintings and drawings inspired by Persian…

Café Mana in Tehran, managed by celebrated Iranian actress Setareh Eskandari, is to host a series of bilingual novel-reading sessions.

Both the original texts and their Persian…

Painter Elham Tahaee explores ‘The Role of Sign’ with her solo exhibition to be held at Saye Art Gallery.

The show is a journey through old times. Paintings of old motifs, stamps, seal…

Distinguished American director and screenwriter Oliver Stone will attend the 36th Fajr International Film Festival in Tehran as a special guest.

Winners of 2018 China Huangbai Mountain International Photography Exhibition were announced recently (April 29) on its official website and among the winners of different sections were five…

English writer, poet and philologist J.R.R. Tolkien's new book The Fall of Gondolin will be published in August.

It depicts an enigmatic city ruined by darkness, described by…

The cinematheque of Iranian Artists Forum in Tehran is to screen the winning films of the most prestigious prize at the Cannes Film Festival, the Palme d'Or, during the first half of the…

Feature film ‘Kupal’ written and directed by Kazem Mollaei and played by Iranian-Armenian actor and theater director Levon Haftvan, who passed away in March, is being screened at selected…

Labriz (brimming) is the name of the latest album composed by Majid Derakhshani, 61, sung by  traditional singer Salar Aghili, 40, and released by Chakavak Zenderood music company.

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Acclaimed Japanese musician and composer Masanori Takahashi, better known by his nickname Kitaro, will perform for three nights at the Ministry of Interior Hall from May 6-8.

The ongoing spat between Netflix and the Cannes Film Festival has worsened, with the streaming service reportedly threatening to withdraw five of its films from the festival.

Italian actor Francesco Clemente Giuseppe Sparanero, better known by his stage name Franco Nero, will come to Tehran to attend the 36th Fajr International Film Festival as a special guest.

The 36th Fajr International Film Festival has announced the names of films to be presented in its Film Market, a commercial event that each year provides valuable services for international…

Architect Masih Fazile has recently designed a narrow residential complex on a small plot, spanning barely 70 square meters in Isfahan, which he believes can be used as a model for other…