Art And Culture

The 21st International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK) will take place in the Indian state of Kerala from December 9-16, where one film from Iran will vie in the main competition section. Iranian…

The Iranian film ‘Forbidden’ directed by Hassan Yektapanah will be screened in the US, Europe and Australia in the near future.

According to a press release by the public relations office…

The award-winning Iranian play ‘Tapancheh Khanoum’ (literally meaning ‘Lady Pistol’) directed by Shahbedin Hoseinpur is on stage at City Theater in Tehran.

Over 200 artworks by Jan Fabre displayed at St. Petersburg’s State Hermitage Museum have drawn mixed reactions because of the Belgian artist’s use of stuffed animals alongside classical paintings…

The third phase of the second Biennale of Iran’s Contemporary Art titled ‘Peace on Paper’ opened on December 4 at Isfahan Museum of Contemporary Art in Isfahan.

It features artworks by 150…

The long-awaited joint production of Iran cinema and Bollywood was finally released in Iran on December 1 and so far has set new records at the box office.

 The Global Nomadic Art Project (GNAP) opens today, December 5, in Salakh village on Qeshm Island, Hormozgan Province.

A total of 11 artists from Iran are taking part, along with nine…

In the heart of Morocco’s ancient city of Fez, stands the world’s oldest working library. 

As early writings from the Arabic-speaking world have come under increasing threat from…

A play based on a mix of myth and cosmology theories, is underway at Arghanoun Theater in Tehran.

The so-called ‘Gari Get Get’ play is written and directed by Farshad Qasemi who, in an…

A Persian children’s book with award-winning illustrations has been released in the market. 

Veteran painter and photographer Ahmad Aali, 81, reviews 50 years of his artistic career in an exhibition titled ‘Self-portraits of Ahmad Aali with G11’.

Aali’s latest solo photo exhibit…

Scenes from the 1979 Islamic Revolution captured by French photojournalist Michel Setboun are published in a new book by Tehran-based Photographers Association of Sacred Defense and Revolution.…

With the end of the mourning ceremonies in the months of Muharram and Safar (in the lunar calendar), and the start of the month of Rabi-al-Awwal, music bands and singers have resumed programs to…

Norouz, the traditional celebration of the Persian New Year in Iran and the start of spring (March 21), was inscribed for the second time on UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity on…

Politics and art have often gone hand in hand. At the Art Basel Miami Beach fair, the biggest and most anticipated of the year in North America, exhibitors certainly have Donald Trump on their…

The photo exhibition ‘26 Iranian Women Photographers’ curated by the photographer Amir Hussein Heshmati and in cooperation with Shirin Art Gallery is underway at CerModern Art Gallery in Ankara.…

The National Board of Review (NBR) in the US has named Asghar Farhadi’s ‘The Salesman’ as the Best Foreign Language Film of 2016.

Iranian woman filmmaker Narges Abyar received the best director award for ‘Breath’ at the awards ceremony of the 20th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival which drew to a close on Saturday, November…

Iranian veteran composer and conductor Ali (Alexander) Rahbari has been invited by Antalya State Symphony Orchestra to conduct a repertoire at the amphitheater of Aspendos, which was an ancient…

The Iranian play ‘Wong Temple Monks’ written by Mohammadreza Koohestani and directed by Ahmad Soleimani will participate in the 2017 Kijimuna Festa, Japan’s International Theater Festival for…

The famous Muslim singer-songwriter Sami Yusuf will perform in Dubai for the first time at Dubai Opera House on December 16.

The one-night concert will feature the performance of Yusuf’s…

Two movie stars will play in ‘Love Letters from the Middle East’, directed by playwright and theater director Kiumars Moradi.

Winner of Crystal Simorgh for Best Actress at 2012 Fajr…

Veteran documentarian and photographer Farshad Fadaian will participate in the Non-Competition section of Cinema Verite with three new films.

An exhibition of Persian calligraphies by two Iranian women artists Mitra Osanloo and her daughter Mehrafarin Akbari was held in Budapest, Hungary, last week.

The commemoration ceremony of the late Morteza Momayez (1935-2005), the renowned pioneer of graphic design in Iran, on the occasion of his 11th death anniversary was held at the Iranian Artists…