Original newspapers and magazines from the Qajar era (1785-1925) are for sale at the ‘Press Treasure’ pavilion affiliated to the Mostazafan Foundation, at the 23rd Tehran Press Exhibition, October 27-November 3.Based in Tehran, Press Treasure is a museum that collects samples from the first issues of press publications from the Qajar era until now.Director of […]

A book of paintings by the late artist Houshang Pezeshknia (1917-1972) was unveiled October 28, at Shahrivar Art Gallery in Tehran.Published forty years after his death by Nazar Publication, the book ‘Hamsafar-e Baad’ (Companion of the wind), contains a wide range of Pezeshknia’s paintings, although only one fourth of the prolific artist’s works are in […]

An Iranian documentary ‘Ali Aqa’, directed by Kamran Heidari, is to compete with 14 other films in the feature-length documentary category at the 30th International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), the Netherlands.‘Ali Aqa’ (meaning Mr. Ali in Persian) is the story of a birdman named Ali in an old neighborhood in Shiraz, Fars Province. He […]

Contemporary Iranian-Australian artist Hossein Valamanesh, 68, is holding his first solo exhibit in Tehran where he was born.‘Where Have I Come from’ is his conceptual exhibition at Aaran Art Gallery located at No. 5, Lolagar Alley, Neauphle-le-Chateau St., Honaronline reported.On display are installations and sculptures that reflect the different stages, layers and aspects of the […]

Iranian feature film ‘Kupal’ written and directed by Kazem Mollaei has won the first award in the New Directors category at the 34th Bogotá Film Festival ‘Bogocine’ in Colombia, October 20-26.It is the story of Dr. Kupal, a taxidermist hunter, played by Iranian-Armenian actor Levon Haftvan. Just a week before the beginning of the Iranian […]

The 60-minute play ‘Aquarium’, helmed by Siamak Ahsaei is on stage in City Theater every night at 19:45 pm till December 8.Written jointly by Ahsaei and Mehrak Qazvini, it recounts the story of two desperate and lonely neighbors, a man and a woman. By talking through their opposite windows, they seek to understand and address […]

An exhibit of artworks created during 40 years of East German history could help Germans from east and west bridge the divide that still separates them 27 years after unification. German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Saturday opened an exhibition at the Barberini Museum in Potsdam near Berlin that seeks to illuminate how artists saw and […]

Neil Simon’s romantic comedy ‘Barefoot in the Park’ is currently on stage at Paytakht Theater.The 75-minute play focuses on Corie and Paul Bratter, a newlywed couple as they begin their life in a tiny apartment. Barely within four days the couple learns to live together while facing the usual ups-and-downs of daily life. Corrie wants […]

Turkish actress Nurgül Yesilcay is set to play in an Iranian feature film directed by Bayram Fazli.The film ‘Beautiful Jinn’ is currently being filmed in Isfahan Province. It is said that Yesilcay will stay in Iran for five weeks for the shooting.Based on a post published on the Instagram page of the film producer Mehradad Farid, […]

Iranian theater director Mazyar Seyyedi will soon stage ‘Venetian Gangs’ at the newly-opened theater hall of Hamoun in Rasht, capital city of Gilan Province, in northern Iran.Venetian Gang is written by Seyyedi in collaboration with playwright, theater director and actor Milad Akhgar. The script is based on ‘The Boors,’ also known as ‘The Cantankerous Men,’ […]