Art And Culture

Musicians from Hungary, Germany, Turkey, Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands and France plus instrumentalists from Iran will perform solo improvisations at the second edition of Show of Hands…

An online database on information and documents of Iranian cinema has been launched by the Cinema Organization of Iran, affiliated to the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance.

Fusion band Chaartaar will perform four concerts in Tehran.

On August 5-6, Milad Hall at Tehran Expo Center will host the group. The first event on August 5 is sold out. Remaining…

Kurdish music band “Tarang” is to stage a concert on August 9 in Tehran.

Andisheh Hall of Hozeh-Honari (Art Bureau), located at the intersection of Hafez Avenue and Somayyeh Street, will…

The 26th edition of “100 Works, 100 Artists,” a major exhibition-cum-sale of works by renowned artists will open Friday at Golestan Gallery in Tehran, offering a variety of art mediums with…

Three cineplexes Megamall, Book Garden and Kourosh,  have dedicated one of their halls to screening the 2018 mystery drama “Den of Thieves,” Cinematicket wrote.

Starring Gerard…

Film club of Raj Gallery is to have a single screening of “Peeping Tom” a 1960 British psychological horror-thriller film directed by Michael Powell and written by Leo Marks, on August 4,…

Woody Allen’s plays Death Knocks and Mr. Big will be read in English on stage of Maktab-e Tehran Cultural Institute on August 4.

The event is directed by actress and translator Shiva…

Falak-ol-Aflak Castle situated on the top of a large hill in Khorramabad, capital city of Lorestan Province, is to host the first festival of Luri music.

In the festival, slated for…

The 2017 feature film “Leaf of Life” written, directed and produced by celebrated documentarian Ebrahim Mokhtari was honored as the best film at the 1st Asian Art Week on Tourism and Film in…

Jafar Panahi’s docudrama “3 Faces” will be screened at the Melbourne International Film Festival, slated for August 2-19, along with three other Iranian films, namely “Dressage” by Pouya…

Portraits of celebrated literary and art figures are on display at a group painting exhibition at Imam Ali (AS) Cultural House in Shahriar County in southwest Tehran.

According to…

The comedy film Katyusha directed by Ali Atshani hit the screens last week.

A middle-aged man, Ali Katyusha has to take on a two-week job to watch over a young boy and former addict from…

Mastan ensemble (also known as Homay & Mastan), led by singer and songwriter Parvaz Homay will be on stage at the Iwan-Attar outdoor venue in Sa’dabad Complex in Tehran.

The band’s…

Before Valiasr meets its northern end, the street huddles a green promenade inside on its last bend. The picturesque garden is Bagh-Ferdows which means the garden of paradise.  

Ancient creatures that once walked on Earth can still be seen in a northwestern corner of Tehran.

Jurassic Park is located near Behroud Square, north of Parvaz Garden Park, between the…

Veteran theater director Ali Pouyan intends to restage his successful adaptation of the play “Galileo,” the masterpiece of German playwright and theater director Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956).

Films from Iran are to be screened in Tokyo during a three-day program on August 8-10. The show is part of a bilateral program to commemorate the 90th anniversary of Iran-Japan relations.

The play “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” directed by Mostafa Koushki has been performed at the 22nd Gdańsk Shakespeare Festival in Poland, July 27-August 5.  It is an adaptation of William…

The play “Mama Yerma” will be among participants in the Teatralny Кufar, international festival of student and young professional theaters, scheduled to be held September 19-22 in Minsk, capital…

When archaeologists uncovered a 2,000-year-old Roman horse head during a dig on a farm in Lahnau, Germany, in 2009, they immediately knew it was the find of a lifetime. Now, almost 10 years…

The self help book ‘’Scarcity: The True Cost of Not Having Enough’’ by Mullainathan Sendhil and Eldar Shafir is now available in Persian.

It is a simplified guide on how to…

Tom Cruise’s sixth installment of the action packed Mission Impossible movie reigns over the box office in North America.

‘’Mission: Impossible — Fallout’’ easily took the No. 1 spot in…

Farnoush Samadi’s acclaimed short film “Gaze” won a diploma of honor for best short film at Guanajuato International Film Festival, held July 20-29 in two Mexican cities, Guanajuato and San…

Young Iranian contemporary artists under 40 are showing their paintings and photography at the Sala delle Feste of Palazzo Bastogi museum in Florence, Italy.

The exhibition ‘’ Iran -40…