Art And Culture

The play ‘Scarecrow’ directed by Mehrdad Khamenei is underway at Ezzatolah Entezami Theatre Hall in Tehran.

It is based on ‘Four Boxes’ written by Bahram Beyzai, 76, critically acclaimed…

Former Iran national soccer team captain Javad Nekounam put up his jersey No. 6 which he wore at World Cup 2014 for a charity auction at Eivan-e-Shams Hall in Tehran on Monday.

The 2nd Iranian National Traditional Art Auction in Tehran on Friday (October 9) is expected to break the sales record of the previous round of the event.

The auction at Rayzan…

Iranian short animation ‘Stripy’ was screened at the biggest open air festivals in Canada and Russia last month.

It was shown at Toronto Urban Film Festival (TUFF) in mid-September on 290…

A documentary film ‘Shadow Game’, co-directed by Leila Rostami-Shokouh and Behnam Tajmir-Riahi is getting ready for the 9th Cinema Verite Documentary Film Festival in December.

Rostami’s…

Over 1,000 years ago, the Persian poet Abu’l-Qasim Ferdowsi (935-1020) narrated the history of Iran and its peoples - spanning 50 monarchs from the dawn of time to the 7th century A.D. - through…

Iranian producer Ali Sartipi has signed a contract with theater development vice president at IMAX Corporation John Schreiner to construct the first IMAX cinema in Iran.

Sartipi, also the…

The Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults, also known as Kanoon, has prepared various plans for the National Children’s Week (October 7-13).

The play ‘Hamlet: The Retribution Affair’, directed by Hossein Jamali, is on stage at Tehran’s Sayeh Theatre hall in City Theatre Complex.

Austrian-American action star Arnold Schwarzenegger has praised Iranian actor Mohammadreza Golzar for his role in ‘Atomic Heart’ after watching the film at the Zurich Film Festival (ZFF),…

Action video games - games that feature quickly moving targets and require the user to make rapid, accurate decisions - can improve attention skills, brain processing, and cognitive functions, a…

The first light installation in Iran was organized at Tehran’s Azadi (Freedom) Tower by German artist Philipp Geist, on Saturday night.

Geist has developed a projection mapping light…

Four of the top corporate sponsors of FIFA, world soccer’s governing body, took coordinated aim at the organization’s president, Sepp Blatter, on Friday, calling for him to resign and labeling him…

Tehran Flor Cinema will be revived as a cultural-commercial complex, 31 years after it was ordered closed in 1984.

Located in downtown Lalehzar Street, Flor Cinema was closed on the orders…

Veteran contemporary artist Shirin Ettehadieh has displayed her latest collection ‘Refugees and Their Memories’ at Shirin Art Gallery.

The collection is based on the conflict in Kobane,…

Art is a common language among all peoples, and Iran and Turkey can forge closer bonds by getting to know each other’s art and culture, said Samil Ocal, head of Yunus Emre Cultural Center in…

An “extremely rare” menu of the last lunch served to first-class passengers on the doomed liner Titanic has sold for $88,000 at an auction.

The menu, which was saved by passenger Abraham…

Movie productions by Iranians have always stirred interest among foreign audiences for the message they carry, usually thematizing on moral issues and focusing on families.

Hadi Norouzi, captain of Tehran’s Persepolis football club, passed away of cardiac arrest on Thursday, October 1, at the age of 30.

He suffered a heart attack while asleep at his home in…

Ahmad-Reza Darvish’s ‘al-Qurban’ (also known as ‘Hussein Who Said No’) opened the 7th edition of the Baghdad International Film Festival (BIFF) on Thursday.

Its first international premiere…

A selection of Persian poems by contemporary Iranian poets was translated and published in Armenian, in a book titled ‘Diary of a Wistful Man.’

It includes 365 short Persian poems in…

A young Tabrizi physician Alireza Solhi, prescribes traditional Persian music as a type of cure for sickness.

A daily dose of music by Mohammad-Reza Shajarian, internationally acclaimed…

The project for beautification of Tehran’s historical Enqelab Street will soon be completed.

The biggest book market and publication center in the country, in the vicinity of Enqelab Square…

On the last Wednesday of every month, a documentary about or made in Iran is shown in American and Canadian cities.

A young artist, Anima Ehtiat, will curate the ‘Art Against IS’ exhibition to condemn the violent nature and massacres by Islamic State militants.

The idea was floated by Ehtiat to the…