Art And Culture

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  • Musical instruments and musicians in performance are the subject of a solo exhibition by painter Zeynab Aliniagorji.

    It is underway at Honar-e Iran (Iran Art) Gallery located at No. 19,…

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  • Graphic designer and calligrapher Kourosh Qazimorad, 48, has put his artworks on display at Art Gallery 14, a new venue in Tehran.

    Titled ‘White Reveries,’ the exhibit is curated by the…

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  • At his latest solo exhibit at Homa Gallery, avant-garde calligrapher, painter and sculptor Ali Reza Astaneh, 35, has again broken the formalistic tradition of calligraphic painting.

    His…

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  • The workshop ‘Artistic Listening to Learn’ was held under the instruction of Daniela Bassani, renowned Italian sound designer, at the 34th Tehran International Short Film Festival at Mellat…

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  • The Second Sheed Persian Film Festival in Texas has dubbed its ‘Close-Up Award’ after one of the famous films of the celebrated Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami (1940-2016).

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  • Sana Sadeghi of Iran won the first prize at ‘Looking at the Stars: the Future of the World’ international painting competition for under-six children held by the United Nations Office for Outer…

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  • A stage version of ‘Ten Little Indians’, a novel by the prolific British writer Agatha Christie, is underway at the main theater hall of Sharif Industrial University.

     The script is…

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  • Helmed by renowned Iranian actor and theater director Atila Pesyani, the play ‘Amusement Park’ is currently on stage at Paliz Theater Hall and will run through November 7.

    The piece,…

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  • ‘An Administration of the Second Gender’ is the title of a play currently being staged at Iranshahr Theater.

    Written and directed by Asghar Khalili, the play is an account of the role of…

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  • Baran Theater Hall is to launch the play ‘Philadelphia’, written and directed by Babak Niushadan, October 22.

    The show, performed by Ali Azimipour and Atieh Alavi narrates the story of…

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  • Prominent Iranian filmmakers Rakhshan Bani-Etemad and Mojtaba Mir-Tahmasb have finished shooting the documentary ‘Lady Touran’ and it is now in the post-production stage.

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  • ‘Rock’ a 2015 documentary by film director Hamid Jafari received the award for the best short documentary at the 28th New Orleans Film Festival, October 11-19 in the US. Jafari’s film was…

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  • Georgia Night Film will be held October 22 at Tehran’s Cinema Museum in collaboration between the Art and Experience Cinematic Group and the Georgian Embassy.

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  • Donald Trump has always maintained that the Pierre-Auguste Renoir ‘Two Sisters’ painting in his New York apartment is the original but on Thursday, Art Institute of Chicago disagreed and…

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  • Historical sites, monuments and landscapes of Tabriz, the capital city of East Azarbaijan Province, are the subject of a photo contest being organized by municipality of the city.

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  • A number of Iranian movies are presented at the two-day Iranian Film Festival in Singapore, slated for October 20-21.

    Held at the National University of Singapore, the festival is…

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  • A one-day tour to one of the oldest villages of Iran is being organized by Kalout Travel (Kalouttravel.com) on Oct. 20.

    The ancient village of Abyaneh in Natanz County, Isfahan Province…

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  • Behind the last bends of Chalus Road (Road 59), there is a lush forest in Mazandaran Province known as Sarpoush-Tangeh.

    In a one-day tour on October 20, Spilet Alborz travel company will…

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  • A journey through the beech forest of Savadkuh County in Mazandaran Province is planned for October 20 by Gando Tour for those who want to see this part of the ancient Hyrcanian Forests in early…

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  • On the occasion of the 55th anniversary of establishment of diplomatic relations between Iran and South Korea, an exhibition of Iranian metal artworks will be held at Niavaran Cultural Center in…

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  • Book House Institute will commemorate the veteran Iranian historian and author Mansoureh Ettehadieh in a ceremony on October 23.

    The event will be held at 4:30 pm, at the venue of Book…

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  • A total of 29 fiction, 24 animated and 12 experimental films are competing in different categories of the 34th Tehran International Short Film Festival (TISFF), currently underway in Tehran.

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  • Spanish journalist and writer Javier Sierra has won this year’s Planeta prize for his novel ‘El Fuego Invisible’.

    The Spanish literary prize, which comes with an award of 601,000 euros…

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  • ‘Lincoln in the Bardo,’ a 2017 novel by American writer George Saunders, 58, has won Britain’s most prestigious literary award – the Man Booker Prize.

    The book is Saunder’s first novel.…

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  • An exhibition of over 100 ancient artifacts from Armenia named ‘Iran & Armenia: Memory of a Realm,’ opened October 17 at the National Museum in Tehran.

    Relics on display date back to…

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