Art And Culture

The 21st International Exhibition of Press and News Agencies will open in Tehran on November 7.

The week-long annual event will host over 500 newspapers, periodicals, news agencies and…

Tehran’s Book City Institute recently hosted Austrian writer Karin Peschka to shed light on modern Austrian literature.

The Nobel Prize awarded in 1963 to a Cambridge professor for his revolutionary work on the central nervous system has sold at an auction for $800,000.

The 23-carat gold medal awarded to the…

A young Iranian artist, Abbas Akbari, has become a member of the International Academy of Ceramics (IAC) in Switzerland.

This is the first time that an Iranian has acquired IAC membership,…

Six Iranians are among winners of the First Asia Architecture Award 2015 in Istanbul.

Awards of the first edition of the event were recently conferred at a ceremony held at the Istanbul…

A play, ‘Metastasis’ directed by Ali-Asghar Dashti will go on stage from October 31, to raise social awareness on cancer. It is focused on the emotional effects of companionship on victims of the…

Technology has truly invaded people’s lives; from tablets to smartphones, there is no time which could be called a ‘no screen time.’ Whether one is travelling, eating, waiting at a public place,…

Iranian short animation ‘Changeover’, directed by Mehdi Alibeygi, will be on the screen at the Leeds International Film Festival (LIFF), England in November.

Internationally acclaimed Iranian musician Kayhan Kalhor accompanied by Turkish baglama player Erdal Erzincan will hold two concerts in the US in late November.

The duet performances are…

Renowned Egyptian Qur’an reciter Mahmoud Shahat Anwar is on a week-long tour of Iran.

Son of the eminent Qari (reciter) Shahat Muhammad Anwar (1950-2007), Anwar arrived on Tuesday and will…

Coinciding with the third Literature and Science Conference in honor of the eminent Iranian female personality Tahereh Saffarzadeh, a ceremony ‘Lady of Culture’ will be held on November 10.

Bank of America has announced the latest round of projects in its ongoing global Art Conservation Project, which will help to restore and preserve culturally significant works of art around the…

The book ‘Surgery: An Illustrated History’ by the American clinical professor and author Ira M. Rutkow written in  1993, has been translated and published in Iran.

Five new movies were released on screens across Iran in Aban (started October 23), the second month of autumn in the Iranian calendar.

Iran’s Book House Institute and the Documentary and Experimental Film Center (DEFC), will sign a memorandum of understanding to collaborate in various areas that would be mutually beneficial.

A team of hardworking Italian cleaners thought they were tidying up after a particularly wild opening party on Friday night at the Museum for Modern and Contemporary Art in Bolanzo, Italy.

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Tehran Symphony Orchestra (TSO) launched its latest music season with a well-known piece by Russian composer Igor Stravinsky ‘Carmina Burana’ on October 6 and 7 and concluded with the Ashura Opera…

An ancient Iranian epic play, ‘The Sun’s Secret, the Sky’s Secret’ will be staged at the 34th Fajr International Theater Festival next year.

Iranian film ‘Borderless’ by Amir-Hossein Asgari, has won an award at the 24th annual Heartland Film Festival, in Indiana, during its premiere in the US.

The film won the Best Premiere for…

A painting collection on the ritual of Ashura, titled ‘Under the Sky of Hussein (AS)’ was on display at the Iranian Artists’ Forum recently.

A double-page Tintin comic strip by the renowned Belgian cartoonist Herge has fetched a record 1.56 million euros ($1.72 million) at an auction.

The sale on October 24 by auction house…

The 5th edition of the Khorshid Film Festival will dedicate a section to French empirical cinema.

“The festival aims to support not only the selected filmmakers but all candidates,” Mehr…

A 16th century church submerged in a southern Mexico dam project 49 years ago has reappeared following a severe drought, drawing visitors by boat to gaze at the spectacular ruins.

The…

Iranian stunt woman Mahsa Ahmadi has won the Special Achievement Award at the 8th Annual Action Icon Awards.

The 2015 ceremony which honors stuntwomen and action-oriented actresses was held…

A children’s story collection ‘Good Stories for Good Children,’ written by the late Mehdi Azar Yazdi, is now available as an audio book in six volumes.