Art And Culture

Tehran’s Milad Tower is holding a series of ‘barkhani’ or traditional style of Iranian storytelling, during the holy month of Ramadan which commenced on Thursday.

Movie stars and renowned…

The Iranian film ‘13’ directed by Houman Seyyedi won two prizes for Best Film and Best Screenplay at the 21st Shanghai International Film Festival.

The film won the prizes after competing…

A rare 3,400-year-old Egyptian burial shroud fetched 374,000 euros ($426,000) at an auction in Paris Thursday, on the latest leg of a journey that has seen it passed from a billionaire banking…

Tehran’s Aun Gallery is hosting a painting collection by Italian and Iranian artists.

Titled ‘Melograno’ (pomegranate), the collection is a cooperative effort of five Italian painters and a…

A portrait of the acclaimed Iranian actress Fatemeh Motamed-Arya is displayed besides 15 international figures at a multimedia exhibition titled ‘The Transformative Power of Art’ at the UN…

Iranian soccer club Naft Tehran will play against Al-Ahli from the United Arab Emirates in the West Asia category of the AFC Champions League 2015 quarter-finals.

Naft were drawn against…

Hamid-Reza Qotbi’s ‘Jameh Daran’ (clothes keepers), a full length feature was screened at the 21st Shanghai International Film Festival on Thursday and was enthusiastically received by Chinese…

As opening day sales at Art Basel soar, the art market bubble is getting fatter.

This year’s fair boasts $3.4 billion worth of art for sale in the Swiss city of Basel, Business Insider…

Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Ali Jannati said he would hold a meeting with the minister of interior to discuss the issue of holding concerts and find a solution to prevent their…

An art book by veteran artist Pariyoush Ganji will be internationally unveiled this fall. An exhibition of her one decade of paintings is underway at Tehran’s Aryana Gallery.

The Parvin Etesami Literary Award is a good opportunity to introduce Iranian women authors and help promote Persian literature, Vice-President and Head of the Center for Women and Family Affairs…

Tehran’s Museum of Contemporary Arts is hosting an exhibition for eminent Iranian artist Mehrdad Sadri who has been working on painting and sculptures outside Iran for over four decades.

An interest in all things Cuban is extending to paintings and sculpture, with US art collectors and dealers descending on Havana for a month-long (May 22-June 22) exhibition amid expectations that…

A two-week exhibition of Iran-Turkey contemporary arts opened in Ankara on Wednesday in the presence of a large number of artists and visitors.

Nearly 200 works by 85 renowned contemporary…

A mobile art exhibition, organized by the Metro Culture House and Sa’dabad Museum complex, is underway at Tehran’s Shahid Beheshti Metro Station.

The event is in four phases each lasting 10…

Kamal Tabrizi’s ‘Don’t Get a Reward From the President’ will go on screen instead of ‘A Time to Love’ by Alireza Raisian during the month of Ramadan, based on a new decision by the Guild Council…

Reza Fahimi’s ‘Cloudy Children,’ a short film, won two awards at Japan International Film Festival, thus becoming a candidate for the 2016 Oscar Academy Award.

The Japanese festival was the…

La Hune, the iconic Parisian bookshop which was the focal point for intellectuals such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and Albert Camus for more than 60 years, closed for the last time on…

The significant role of Iranian historians and authors in producing ‘The Comprehensive History of Iran’ in 20 volumes unveiled on Tuesday, demonstrates the ability of Iranian scholars in…

Iran bagged the 2015 Beach Wrestling World Championship title by winning three gold medals and a bronze in the senior category.

The event was held in Mangalia, Romania in three categories…

The ‘Comprehensive History of Iran’ written in 20 volumes, will be unveiled on June 16.

The project started 14 years ago with 170 academicians and professional researchers covering Iran’s…

The Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance will take action against publishers who oppose its directive on the revision of books and print their own versions, said Ali Jannati, minister of…

A series of paintings by students of Hannibal Alkhas, the celebrated Assyrian-Iranian artist, are on display at Laleh Art Gallery.

The exhibition, to commemorate the late artist, has been…

A Muslim entrepreneur has developed a self-cooling, water proof and wrinkle-free hijab, (Islamic veil) following the footsteps of inventors of fire fighting gear and sweatsuits.

Ahmad…

An exhibition of Mohammad Khoshroo’s photographs of the shrine of the first Shia Imam, Imam Ali (PBUH), in Najaf, Iraq, was inaugurated at Niavaran Cultural Center in northern Tehran on Friday in…