Art And Culture

A tour of the historical rail spiral of ‘Gold Line’ in Savadkuh, Mazandaran Province, is organized for December 21 by Raja Rail Transportation Company, in collaboration with Parsyad Tour Company…

Iranian film ‘Blockage’ directed by Mohsen Qaraei has been nominated for six awards in the second edition of Malaysia International Film Festival (MIFF) slated for February 25-March 3, 2018.

Celebrated Iranian pop singer and composer Mohsen Yeganeh, 31, held a sold-out concert on December 16 in Los Angeles, California. Microsoft Theater, a music and theater venue in downtown LA, was…

The fourth edition of the annual Musicema Celebration awarded the winners on December 16.

Scholars from Iran and Italy will convene at a series of seminars in Tehran, Shiraz, Rome and Bologna next summer to share ideas on and conduct a comparative analysis of works by Persian poet Sa…

A new Harry Potter story hit the Web last week but it was not written by J. K. Rowling.

New York-based entertainment group Botnick Studios, a company that uses algorithms to train…

Soul Friends music band will perform a concert to mark Christmas Eve at Vahdat Hall in Tehran on December 23-25.

Zhiwaar Travel Institute has a special program for the annual Yalda festivity, the Persian solstice.  The nocturnal celebration will be observed this week from the night of December 21, the…

Egypt’s authorities have revealed artifacts and a linen-wrapped mummified body, possibly that of a top official, from two tombs that were discovered two decades ago in the Nile city of Luxor but…

Sazineh band, an ethnic music group, will hold concert for the first time after its inception in 2009, at Vahdat Hall in Tehran, December 27.

The second sculpture contest in Kaji Wetland in Nehbandan County, South Khorasan Province, is slated for early spring 2018.

Kaji Wetland Sculpture Festival is organized under the…

Feature film ‘Mother, I’m Joseph’, by Iranian director Mohammadreza Fartousi was granted the award for best film in the competition section of the third Bahía Independent Cinema Festival in…

Iranian photographers won one award and two honorable mentions at the Trofeo Gipuzkoa International, a Spanish festival of photography.

Polish musician and singer Mariusz Kolueh will perform with the Karaj Philharmonic Orchestra at Arasbaran Cultural Center in Tehran on December 17, to mark Rumi's death anniversary.

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Actor, singer and guitarist Ashkan Khatibi, 38, has written and directed a concert theater that will go on stage at Vahdat Hall in Tehran.

The '10 Years of Solitude' is slated for…

Art Bureau’s Moon Hall is showing the play 'Battle Will Be Over' every evening at 6pm.

The play 'Songs of the Wall Without Door' written and directed by Mohammad Qasemi is on stage at the Art Bureau and is scheduled to run through December 29. Qasemi has a role in his own work…

A play by the Spanish dramatist Federico García Lorca is on stage at Arghanoon Theater. It is the work of Ashkan Sadeqi and Elham Shakib. The story is about a childless woman living in rural…

The play 'Monochromacy' will be on the stage at City Theater from December 19 until January 1. Bahareh Katouzi and Abbas Jamali act in the two-actor play under Siavash Pakrah's direction,…

Henry Cole, the founding director of London’s Victoria & Albert Museum, issued a convention promoting the reproduction of works of art “for the benefit of museums of all countries,” in 1867…

A joint production of Iran and Turkey ‘Beautiful Jinn’, directed by Iranian filmmaker Bayram Fazli, is in the final phase of its edit and will participate in the 36th Fajr Film Festival slated…

A solo painting exhibition by painter, archaeologist and art historian Ali Roustaeianfard, 42, is hosted by Behnam Gallery run by the Behnam Daheshpour Charity Organization, a Tehran-based NGO…

Hozeh-Honari (Art Bureau) in Tehran held a workshop on illustrated books in the presence of Italian illustrator Philip Giordano on December 14. 

Italian musicians are to perform live at Niavaran Cultural Center in Tehran on December 22 and 23.

Gianlugi Trovesi on Clarinet and Gianni Coscia on accordion will perform a duet on Dec…

Niavaran Cultural Center in north Tehran will celebrate Yalda, the Persian solstice, with a performance by Kazakh folk band Saryarka. Slated for December 21, at 6pm, the concert is organized…