The smell of gunpowder still lingered at Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain, on Oct. 24, hours after China’s Cai Guo-Qiang, famed for his explosive art, put the finishing touch to his show. Better used to the work of long-dead painters, this is the first time that the museum has welcomed an artist-in-residence, whose internationally-acclaimed contemporary […]

Acclaimed master of contemporary painting, Seyyed Asadollah Shariatpanahi, 79, inaugurates today a café gallery in his hometown Semnan, capital of Semnan Province.Last month, Shariatpanahi said in an interview with Semnan-based weekly Bayan-e Mardom, “We want to set up a gallery near where people come to have tea or coffee. Thus, whether want it or not, […]

Avant-garde painter Abolfazl Lireh has set up another exhibition of abstract collages at 7-Samar Art Gallery.Running through Nov. 1, the event marks a continuation of Lireh’s previous works, a visualization of abstract and subjective concepts. This time he uses collage techniques to convey inner feelings and thoughts.The venue is located at No. 8, 5th Alley, […]

Acclaimed painter, caricaturist, illustrator, sculptor and animator Mohammad Ali Baniasadi, 62, will showcase a selection of his paintings at Sareban Art Gallery in Tehran.The exhibition will open on Oct. 27 and run for 10 days from 4-8 p.m. The gallery is open to the public, except on Tuesdays.It is located at No. 130, West Huwayzeh […]

In her latest exhibit at Delgosha Art Gallery, painter Yasaman Nozari has presented a narrative on ‘distance’, in physical and sensory terms.The exhibition is titled ‘The Hum’. On display are a series of paintings showing environments that contain repetitive or lookalike elements devoid of individual identities, Tandismag.com reported.It will be on till Oct. 31. The […]

Feature film ‘Eczema’ written and directed by Mehran Mahdavian is on screens at four cinemas in Tehran.The film recounts the story of a young woman who struggles to sustain her marriage by not letting her husband figure out much about her past.Shiva Makinian, Diba Zahedi, Hesam Mahmoudi, Karim Amini, Komeil Alipour and Nader Fallah are […]

‘The Tabarestanis ‘ is a documentary written and directed by Mohsen Abdolvahab, currently on screen. It is about a group of young engineers who decide to set up a steel mill in a city in Mazandaran Province, in north Iran, while many industrial units are in the process of downing shutters due to…

Iranian artworks at the Christie’s sales of ‘Middle Eastern, Modern and Contemporary Art’ and ‘Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds’ fetched high prices.Held October 25, the Modern and Contemporary Art sale, which was held in London for the first time (the previous 22 rounds were in Dubai), generated $6.8 million from 44 pieces sold […]

Veteran director Ferydoun Jeirani’s latest feature film ‘Asphyxia’ is among the official selection competition line-up for the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival in Estonia.Making its international premiere at the Estonian festival, the film tells the story of a nurse in a mental hospital who is dragged into a potential murder plot. She is forced to […]

Iranian short film ‘Alan’ written and directed by Mostafa Gandomkar won the top award at the 14th Konstanz Short Film and Theater Festival held October 21-22 in Germany.The 22-minute fiction is about Kurdish people in Syria and Iraq who lost their homes in the drawn out and bloody internal strife in the two Middle East […]