Art And Culture

The iconic Azadi Tower in southwest Tehran will host “Dolls Through Time,” an exhibition of traditional dolls.

Ali Abbasi’s genre-bending Nordic puzzler “Border” won the top prize in the Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard competition on Friday.

An adaptation of “Between Worlds” a play by Franco-Belgian playwright Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt is on stage at Senoqteh Theater House.

It is a metaphysical suspense drama between dream and…

The play “Burned Oaks” that reflects on the ongoing plight of Iranian victims of chemical weapons used by Iraq during the eight-year-old conflict in the 1980s will go on stage at Mehrab Theater…

Sakoo Art School in Tehran hosted the first painting exhibition by veteran actor and assistant director Reza Babak on Friday.

According to the director of the school Narges Soleymanzadeh…

Painter and sketch artist Morteza Yazdani is showing at Mah Art Gallery in Tehran a series of paintings reflecting his contemplation on ancient Iranian myths.

The Persian translation of “Art of Dying” written by acclaimed French author Paul Morand (1888-1976) and translated by Asghar Noori has been released by Nashr-e Markaz Publication.

Visual artist Dariush Nahdaran is displaying his collection of photos and video installations at Elga Wimmer Gallery in New York. Seven photography collections and video installations on display…

A fake rock painting by Banksy, an anonymous England-based graffiti artist and political activist, is returning to the British Museum more than a decade after it was planted there as a hoax.

Film fans can buy movie tickets for half price for shows from noon until evening and watch films in cinemas till daybreak during the fasting month of Ramadan (started May 17).

Tehran Flute Choir is to release a new album by summer from its musical performances in European concerts.

The album will feature two musical collections including tracks from the…

Bust of celebrated Persian poet Ferdowsi (935-1020) was unveiled in Nicosia on the National Ferdowsi Day (May 15).

The statue, a present from the Foreign Ministry in Tehran, has been…

Poet, translator, literary researcher and freelance journalist Farideh Hassanzadeh-Mostafavi has released a book on cats, titled “The Four-Legged Qalandars: Footprints of Cats in Poetry, Stories…

Ethnic music from Khorasan region will be heard Saturday night at Roudaki Hall.  

The concert is the third and last performance by the three ensembles -- Saba, Simorgh and…

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is hosting an exhibition of art mediums that mixes historical and contemporary Iranian art.  Titled “In the Fields of Empty Days”, 125 artworks, namely…

Dutch art dealer Jan Six made the discovery of a lifetime at an auction house in 2016, when he saw the hand of Rembrandt in an unknown painting that had gone unnoticed for four centuries.

A collection of glass paintings created on the basis of the illustrations in an old lithograph of Shahnameh (book of kings) is on view at Malek National Museum and Library in Tehran

Meryl Streep will take the lead in “The Laundromat”, a Steven Soderbergh-directed thriller about the Panama Papers.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, the Oscar winner will…

Es’haq Aqaei will open his “Something Like Life” exhibition at Iranian Artist Forum in Tehran on Friday. 

The one-week event is a collection of photos depicting life, traditions and…

Contemporary Persian poet Mohammad Shams Langeroodi, unveiled a music album based on his poems on May 14 at the central branch of Book City in Tehran.

The directorial debut of Navid Mahmoudi’s ‘Parting’ is on the screen at selected cinemas.

An Afghan-Iranian film made in 2016, it is set almost entirely in Tehran and is about two young…

Godfather Café is set to have a single screening of “Shame” a film by Swedish director, writer and producer Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) on May 20. 

In 1968, at the height of the…

A group of artists visited the city of Shushtar in the southern province of Khuzestan and spent time near the Historical Hydraulic System in the city and made paintings of the complex irrigation…

Balkan Can Kino Film Festival, held at the Communitism Cultural Association of Athens, will be screening seven Iranian short animations on Friday. 

A group of visual artists will celebrate National Khayyam Day (May18) by holding an exhibition at Hepta Art Gallery in Tehran on May 18-30.  The exhibition commemorates the eleventh century…