Art And Culture

Joe Alaskey, who voiced Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck among other legendary cartoon characters, died on Wednesday of cancer, at the age of 63.

Alaskey replaced Mel Blanc as the voice of Bugs…

A painting collection, titled ‘VPNology’, by Iranian artist Baran Azad is on view at Shirin Art Gallery in Tehran.

The exhibition presents an insight of the artist on impressionism style,…

Series ‘Shield 5’, written and directed by Anthony Wilcox has launched its first two episodes exclusively on social media image-sharing platform Instagram.

The action-thriller will be told…

The internationally acclaimed Iranian traditional singer Mohammad-Reza Shajarian will hold a concert at Yerevan Opera Theater in the Armenian capital on March 31.

Together with Shahnaz…

A collection of miniature art by acclaimed artist Ardeshir Mojarrad-Takestani was recently on view at Lajevard Art Gallery in Tehran.

Titled ‘A Review of Artworks’, the collection included…

Prominent Egyptian Qur’an qari (reciter) Ragheb Mustafa Ghalwash passed away on Thursday, February 4, in a hospital in Egypt.

Master Ghalwash, a senior member of Egypt’s Qur’an Reciters and…

Famous American filmmaker Bryan Singer has his next project lined up. Following this summer’s ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’, the director will tackle an adaptation of French writer Jules Verne‘s ‘20,000…

The Romanian Peasant Museum in Bucharest launched the Iranian Culture Week on February 3.

Organized by the Iranian Embassy, the opening ceremony was attended by the ambassador to Romania,…

The play “A Memory, A Monologue, A Cry and A Prayer” is on stage from Thursday at Entezami House Museum in Tehran.

Director of the play, Mehrdad Khamenei, said it has to be seen “as a…

An exhibition of posters by the renowned Swiss graphic designer Stephan Bundi is currently underway at Imam Ali Religious Arts Museum in Tehran.

Coinciding with the opening of the 13th Provincial Book Fair in the southern Hormozgan Province on January 30, the Abou Reyhan Center for Special Diseases in the provincial capital Bandar Abbas…

A painting collection by artist Zahra Sayyad-Noqretab will open on Friday (Feb 5) at Honar-e Iran Art Gallery in Tehran.

The exhibition ‘My Nostalgic City, Anzali’, presents 19 oil…

Shakespeare’s Globe Theater Company is staging ‘Hamlet’ in a squalid refugee camp in northern France, bringing the best-known play to some of the more than 4,000 people living in what is known as…

The play ‘The Phantom of the Tehran Opera’, directed by Ali Sasani Nejad is on stage at Iranian Artists’ Forum in Tehran.

A different adaptation of a 1990 work by British award-winning…

The ‘Persian Blue’ exhibition underway at the Museum of Contemporary Art Ahvaz (MCAA) in southern Khuzestan Province displays the work of four generations of Iranian artists who have explored the…

The 34th Fajr International Theater Festival (FITF) wrapped up on Monday, by awarding the winners of different categories and honoring three theater personalities at Tehran’s Vahdat Hall.

The Annual Book of Illustrators (ABI) will publish works of artists in two volumes in collaboration with Pouyanama publishing house in its 2016 edition.

Sales of Harry Potter ebooks and audiobooks have more than doubled over the last quarter after JK Rowling’s digital publishing arm allowed the bestselling series to be sold by major retailers such…

Iranian traditional Nowroz (New Year) exhibition stalls will present products for the customary annual celebrations, including handicrafts, in five European countries in the first half of 2016.

The Tehran Symphonic Orchestra issued a call for musicians and performers to join the orchestra after passing a test on January 30.

The 5th edition of the Fajr International Fashion and Clothing Festival is slated for March 8 -13 at the Tehran Permanent Fairgrounds.

Twenty-two guilds and associations will take part in…

Iranian short film ‘Sormeh’ directed by Azadeh Ghochagh, which won the top prize at the 11th edition of the Dieciminuti Film Festival in Italy, was conferred the award on Saturday, (Jan. 30).

An adaptation of a post-war avant garde drama, ‘Rhinoceros’, directed by Nasir Malekijou will go on stage in Tehran from February 14.

A new exhibition at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) will focus on the works of Pritzker Architecture Prize winning architects Toyo Ito, and Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA, famous…

The most important cinematic event in Iran, the Fajr Film Festival opened Sunday, (Jan. 31) at Vahdat Hall in central Tehran in the presence of a large number of local cineastes and invitees.