Art And Culture

Head of the National Library and Archives Organization of Iran (NLAI) Seyyed Reza Salehi-Amiri met his Austrian counterpart Johanna Rachinger on Saturday in Vienna.

The 20th International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK) was inaugurated in the Indian state of Kerala on December 5.

Prominent Iranian filmmaker Dariush Mehrjui was to have been honored in…

The Islamic Institute of New York honored Iranian master of Persian painting and miniatures, Mahmoud Farshchian, earlier this week.

The first group of young Iranian cineastes will leave for Poland to take part in a filmmaking course in the Polish Cinema Academy.

Following a MoU between Iran and Poland signed during…

Colombia’s discovery of the 300-year-old, shipwrecked galleon San Jose, thought to be loaded with some $10 billion in gold and precious stones, could shed light on an important period in Spanish…

Speaking at a press conference at the 15th Marrakech International Film Festival on Saturday, Francis Ford Coppola, renowned American filmmaker, quoted the Holy Qur’an and defended Islam in a…

FIFA President Sepp Blatter and vice-president Michel Platini are due to attend personal hearings with FIFA’s ethics judge starting on December 16.

Both men are fighting to salvage their…

Iranian apparel designs were in the spotlight at the 9th Islamic Clothing International Fashion Festival, held in Kazan, the capital of the Russian republic of Tatarstan on December 2.

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An international poster exhibition ‘Poster Passion’, organized by the Ecuadorian ‘Poster Poster’ art group, is underway at Tehran’s Hepta Gallery.

The collection, including 32 unpublished…

A young Iranian photographer, Alireza Fani, exhibited his collections ‘Aridity’ and ‘Displacement’ at Tehran’s Mohsen Art Gallery.

The play ‘Rabbit Hole’ directed by Fariborz Karimi is on stage at the Iranian Artists Forum’s Entezami Theatre Hall in Tehran.

A production of Bohemi Theatre Group, it deals with the ways…

The city of Yogyakarta in Indonesia is hosting a Street Art Festival where sculptures blend creativity and playfulness with messages of social and environmental awareness.

Logic and facts…

The second edition of the Global Nomadic Art Project (GNAP) is underway in Gujarat, India, with international environmental artists including three nature artists from Iran, participating in the…

Imagine not knowing what Mona Lisa’s smile looks like? Or Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’? Imagine you heard people talking about them and knew they existed, but could never experience them yourself. For…

Iranian movie ‘The Other’s Father’ directed by Yadollah Samadi has won two top prizes at the International Children’s Film Festival in India.

Competing in the 10th edition of the festival,…

An exhibition of valuable artworks from the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMOCA) will be held in Rome in 2017.

This follows a memorandum of cooperation signed by Majid Mollanorouzi,…

Iranian painter Behnaz Jalali, has displayed her latest solo collection ‘Tehran Passing the Imagination’ at Shirin Art Gallery.

Sotheby’s sale of 20th Century Art - A Different Perspective in London on December 2 saw six new records for works of modern Iranian and Arab art.

Iran is trying to register the Arba’een ritual as an Islamic spiritual heritage in UNESCO.

The issue was announced at a Cabinet meeting chaired by President Hassan Rouhani, on Sunday, IRNA…

The first edition of the Cine-Iran Festival of Toronto (CIFT) was held November 27-29 in the Canadian city screening 12 feature films from contemporary Iran cinema.

Chinese artist Liu Bolin, 42, is known as ‘the invisible man’ due to the way he can camouflage himself inside his own artworks.  

Bolin, who has a master’s degree in fine arts, has had…

Veteran folklore and traditional musicians have been invited to perform at a group concert in Belgium.

Veteran actor Jamshid Mashayekhi celebrated his 81st birthday at the inauguration of the play ‘Hedgehog’ at Tehran’s Baran Theatre Hall on Sunday.

Mashayekhi was the special guest of the…

Veteran actress and the first female filmmaker in the history of Iran cinema Shahla Riahi, was honored in a ceremony at Charsou Cineplex in Tehran on Sunday.

A Russian translation of an epic and folklore book series ‘Tales of Karbala’, written by Mehdi Qezeli has been published in Russia.

The 10-volume series is translated by Russian Maria…