Art And Culture

Last month, some remarkable news surfaced: the fabled Voynich manuscript had finally been decoded by artificial intelligence. But it turns out that the content of the cryptic 600-year-old, 240-…

The 36th Fajr International Film Festival, slated for April 19-27, will screen more than 10 feature films focusing on the conflicts in Syria, Yemen and Myanmar at the ‘Broken Olive Branches’…

Italian décor and furniture designer, creative director and traveler Gian Paolo Venier, who bases concrete tableware on ancient Iranian architecture, plans to show his new collection at this…

Acclaimed musician, composer and orchestra conductor Nasser Cheshmazar will perform with an orchestra of 80 instrumentalists at Vahdat Hall.

Cheshmazar, 65, and Istgah Orchestra will…

Gizzok, an Iranian rock band from Bandar Abbas, capital of Hormozgan Province, will perform on Saturday night at Shahrzad Theater Complex.

Celebrated pop singer, songwriter and actor Farzad Farzin will perform at Milad Tower. His concerts, featuring a selection of his hit songs, are slated for Sunday at 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. at the…

Iranian-English composer, pianist, conductor and music producer Hooshyar Khayam, Iranian violinist and viola player Babak Koohestani and Iranian cellist Annar Eta’ati have formed a trio to stage…

A group exhibition of artistic jewelry is underway at Shamideh Gallery in Tehran. Titled ‘Fifteen’, the exhibit is a joint project of 15 artists curated by jeweler Shima Khoddam. The exhibit…

Spring Book Sale, organized by the Book House Institute, opened on Wednesday across Iran and will run through April 1.

Book enthusiasts can contact the bookstores participating in the…

Iranian feature film ‘No Date, No Signature’ directed by director and screenwriter Vahid Jalilvand has received the Jury Prize of Belgrade International Film Festival (FEST).

The 46th…

Marina Abramovic and Anish Kapoor have embraced virtual reality.

In Abramovic’s VR debut, ‘Rising’, the artist is present and in peril, while the elevator pitch for Kapoor’s ‘In Yourself…

Architect and painter Alireza Taghaboni is among five nominees for the first edition of the annual architecture ‘RA Dorfman Award’ in summer, organized by the Royal Academy of Arts, the oldest…

A group photo exhibition on labor children will be held at Ibn-Sina Cultural Center in Tehran.

Titled ‘Govah’ (testimony), the exhibit is organized by the Society for Protection of…

An art gallery in Tehran is playing host to a group exhibition of visual arts and will set aside part of its returns for the quake-stricken people of Kermanshah.

The documentary ‘A Woman Without a Name’ directed by Farzad Khoshdast will be screened at the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival. Based in the Danish capital, the largest…

Selected cinemas of Tehran are screening ‘Scenes From the Life of a Detective’, directed by Alireza Rasoulinejad. 

A teenage boy, obsessed with becoming a detective, receives a…

Iranian Artists Forum will have a single screening of ‘There Will Be Blood’, helmed by Paul Thomas Anderson on March 21.

Silver miner Daniel Plainview leads a hardscrabble life with his…

‘Certified Copy’, a film by the late Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami, is scheduled to have a screening at Godfather Café on March 8.

While touring Tuscany, Italy, promoting his new…

Qolhak Cineplex will screen the 2017 Oscar winning film ‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’, written and directed by Martin McDonagh, on March 8.

TEFAF Art Symposium 2018, which is a European fine art fair, will be held in Maastricht, the Netherlands, from March 10-18.

At a recent Dolce & Gabbana’s fashion show on Feb. 25 in Milan, drones joined the usual models walking the runway.

Dolce & Gabbana replaced its usual parade of millennial…

An exhibition of photos taken by Italian photographer Mauro Vitale opened at Iranian Artists Forum in Tehran on Monday as part of the 15th edition of the Image of the Year and Tassvir Film…

Acclaimed theater director Masoud Delkhah is preparing to bring one of the greatest plays of William Shakespeare on stage at City Theater in Tehran in summer. 

Amir Ahmad Ansari’s debut feature film ‘Rabidity’ is to be screened in the cities of Montreal and Toronto in Canada and the US State of California in May. 

Written by Amir Ali…

The largest national handicrafts event of Iran opened on Tuesday in Tehran. The 29th National Handicrafts Exhibition was officially launched on March 6 at Tehran’s International Permanent…