Art And Culture

Iranian cartoonist Saeed Sadeghi received the International Jury Members Special Prize at the 6th International Olive Cartoon Contest in Kyrenia, Cyprus, last week. “I was inspired by Leonardo…

The Khorramshahr wing of Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization in Khuzestan Province holds today a meeting on the water drainage system at Chogha Zanbil, a UNESO World…

Directed by Asghar Abdollahi, the movie ‘One Canary, One Crew’ is currently on the screen at several cinemas across the country.

The film which casts Hengameh Qaziani and Habib Rezaei in…

The DreamWorks popular animated movie ‘Madagascar’ is being adapted for the stage.

The family comedy, based on a book by Kevin Del Aguila, will be opening at Wimbledon New Theater in…

Winsor and Newton, a company producing artist’s paint in London, is to hold a self-portrait contest for art students in two national and international phases.

Participants, aged 16 and…

A collection of photos by German master of photography Arno Fischer (1927-2011) will go on display at Silk Road Art Gallery in Tehran.

The 34th Tehran International Short Film Festival (TISFF) will host directors from 43 countries to screen 110 movies from October 17-22 at Mellat Cinema Complex in Tehran. According to the…

An unveiling ceremony for three bilingual books (English and Persian) of selected poems by contemporary Iranian poets Qeysar Aminpur, Tahereh Saffarzadeh and Salman Harati is scheduled for…

Fereydoun Jeirani’s latest feature film ‘Asphyxia’ is on the screen from Wednesday.

The story is about a man who takes his wife to an asylum to be taken care of as she is suffering from…

The feature film ‘Chanel’ directed by Hossein Kondori is one of the newly-released movies that deals with a social issue.

‘Chanel’ is a drama that narrates the strange story of a nurse…

Directed and produced by Hossein Shahabi, ‘Conditional Release’ is showing in cinemas in Tehran and some other cities.

The film seeks to portray the social problems and difficulties many…

The short animation ‘Entracte’, directed by Iranian graphic artist Mohamadreza Kheradmanadan has won the award for Better Experimental Short Movie at the first edition of NAZRA Palestine Short…

Iranian game enthusiasts have been invited by Iran Game Development Institute to join a two-day game jam, a game production contest, scheduled for October 19-20 in Tehran.

A game jam is…

Veteran painter Nosratollah Moslemian has presented a selection of his latest works at a solo exhibit at Iranshahr Art Gallery.

The exhibit features 13 canvases each a collage-like…

Photographer Farzan Shams is holding an exhibition of road photography titled ‘Stuck on the Road.’

The common feature in all photos is that they were all taken on the ‘road’ each in a…

Tehran-based Artibition Online Gallery will hold a special art sale October 19-20 on its website Arthibition.net.

Artworks to be presented at the online sale are from a group of 14…

‘Pyromania,’ the irresistible urge to start fire, is the latest solo exhibit by acclaimed painter Farzan Sajjadi.

The exhibit is on at Shirin Art Gallery located at No. 5, 13th Alley,…

It is 20 years since JK Rowling’s ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’ went on sale. Back then, no one could have known that this 223-page book would have six sequels, eight film…

A collection of pictures and documents from the Qajar era (1785-1925) will be unveiled at an exhibition in Tehran next spring by the National Library and Archives Organization of Iran (NLAI).

“No tree is felled for production of paper for our books,” reads a sign on the bookstore of Roozbahan Publication on Enqelab St.

The Iranian-Italian joint play ‘1+1’ was staged at the 13th  International Theater Festival for Children in Bucharest on October 12 and won the jury award at the closing ceremony on October…

A literary festival aimed at commemorating the 200th death anniversary of Jane Austen, one of the most popular English novelists, is to take place in a Hampshire village next week.

There…

The 12th Specialized Handmade Carpet Exhibition in Hamedan will be held November 21-27 in the capital of the province. The venue is the Hamedan International Exhibition Center near Ashura Square…

A print exhibition titled ‘Echo From the Past’ by the Australian artist Ian Chamberlain is underway at A Art Gallery in Tehran, located at Azody St., Karim Khan Ave. Chamberlain’s work takes its…

Khaneh-Hekmat (house of wisdom) in Isfahan, affiliated to the municipality and tasked with organizing literary and philosophical programs, will host a critical appraisal session of the film ‘…