Art And Culture

The filming of ‘The Devil’s Daughter’, the second joint feature film of Iran and India began in Mumbai on March 2, coinciding with the Holi Festival, widely known as ‘Festival of Colors’ marking…

On Thursday, Zhiwaar Tour will take visitors to three Zoroastrian monuments in Tehran Province.

Adorian Fire Temple, one of the three places, is in downtown Tehran. The Qajar-era temple…

A one-day tour is planned by Arand Tour on Friday to Arak, capital of Markazi Province, as well as Meyqan Wetland, 15 km northeast of the capital city.

The tour starts at 5 a.m. at…

A translation of the title ‘Everything, Everything’ has recently landed on the shelves of bookstores across the country. 

A collection of modern furniture designed by architect Bijan Shafei is on display at Art Time Gallery. The furniture is made mainly from bamboo.

Renowned theater director and playwright, Mohammad Rahmanian, will direct a stage reading of ‘Afra,’ a play based on a namesake screenplay by acclaimed playwright, theater and film director…

‘Protectors’ is the name sculptors Samira Darya and Meysam Nejad-Rasouli gave to an exhibition they held at Vista Art Gallery in Tehran, which came to a close on March 5.

The artworks on…

Blue Vision, an international photography festival on environmental issues, is being organized by Blue Circle environmental group of Art & Ecosystem Club affiliated to the University of…

‘Pahlavan Goudarz’ trilogy penned by Majid Shafiei and printed by Monadi Tarbiat Cultural Institute has recently come out.

The 90th annual Academy Awards ceremony was held on Sunday evening at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles, and ‘The Shape of Water’ led the pack with four wins, including major categories Best…

Laleh Art Gallery is hosting the ‘Seventh Expo of Generations of Iranian Contemporary Artists’.

The gallery has hosted earlier editions of the exhibit and over the years seen an…

Ceramic artist Azadeh Shooli has set up an exhibition of ‘1001 Plates’ at Surface Art Space of Hadish Mall.

The venue is located on Mousavi Street near Heravi Square. On display are…

Painter Siavash Talaei is holding an exhibition of his statuesque paintings in O Gallery in Tehran. On display are nine artworks created using acrylic on primed canvas that helps hide the…

‘Mirror’, a theatrical work produced in collaboration between Iranian theater company Zendegi and France, went on stage for three nights at the theater of the University of Lyon. 

Portrait of Saskia sitting in an armchair, painted by Rembrandt, is among the 56-item collection borrowed from the Louvre Museum that are to go on show at an exhibition in Iran National Museum…

Works and thoughts of Albanian poet and writer Naim Frasheri (1846-1900) is the topic of a meeting scheduled for Monday at Tarbiat Modares University in Tehran.

Sotheby’s released its fourth-quarter and 2017 overall earnings on March 2. The auctioneer notched up $5.5 billion in consolidated sales last year, up 12% from 2016.

The key drivers of…

The Second Malaysia International Film Festival & Malaysia Golden Global Awards, held on Feb. 25-March 3, granted its award for best leading actor to Iranian actor Hamed Behdad for his role…

A series of calligraphic paintings by Hamedeh Mashiyati are on view at Vali Art Gallery.

Running through March 11, the exhibition features a series of abstract calligraphies with deep…

World Wildlife Day, which is observed each year on March 3, was celebrated in 2018 on the theme "Big cats: predators under threat".

Director Pooya Badkoobeh’s debut dramatizes the moral dilemma and class divisions a young woman faces after getting mixed up in a robbery, Variety film critic Alissa Simon wrote in a review on…

The world’s most famous painting has not stepped outside the Louvre since 1974. However, Mona Lisa might be packing her bags. Leonardo da Vinci‘s masterwork could leave the Louvre for the first…

A total of 50 countries have applied for the ‘Darolfonoon’ section of the 36th Fajr International Film Festival slated for April 19-27 in Tehran

Darolfonoon, a section added to FIFF in…

Chilean playwright Ariel Dorfman’s play ‘Death and the Maiden’ is currently on stage at Paliz Theater House.

The 60-minute play, directed by Sina Rastgou, is about Paulina Salas, a…

Stage director Keyhan Parchami will stage the play ‘The Glass Menagerie’ for two weeks at Paliz Theater House.