Japanese sculptor and painter Noriyuki Haraguchi will arrive in Tehran next week to see his work at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMoCA) and oversee its restoration.Four decades ago Haraguchi’s oil pool, titled ‘Matter and Mind,’ was installed at the TMoCA.“Matter and Mind was put up in 1977 as part of the museum’s interior design. […]

An adaptation of the play ‘The House of Bernarda Alba’, written by the Spanish dramatist Federico García Lorca, is on at Shahrzad Theater with Roya Asadi as director.  The play centers around the events of a house during a period of mourning, in which Bernarda Alba, aged 60, wields total control over her five daughters.The […]

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 ‘Lord of the Flies.’ Slated for October 23, the meeting is the latest of the series the house organizes regularly to debate movies with a philosophical approach, IMNA, […]

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 will be authors, book launches, workshops, performances and a lot more at the Netley Literary Festival in Netley Abbey next week.During the seven-day event residents […]

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 influence from man-made structures. Reinterpreting them as monuments placed within the landscape, the objects in turn become landmarks of their time. The […]

‘The Pink Raj’, an intense pink diamond described by experts as the world’s largest, is expected to fetch up to $30 million when it is auctioned in Geneva next month.The stone, which weighs just over 37 carats, was displayed by auction house Sotheby’s in London this week.“It is a wonderful shape. It is a cushion […]

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, according to Asrenamayeshgah News Agency (asrenamayeshgah.com).Hamedan is one of the largest carpet weaving areas in the region and encompasses hundreds villages. Each of village has […]

Narges Behrouzian’s play ‘Home Worker’ is on stage at Molavi Theater Hall and will run through October 27.An adaptation of the play ‘Heimarbeit’ by the German author, playwright, actor and film director Franz Xaver Kroetz, it portrays a couple trapped in a life of tiring routines.The cast include Tina Younestabar and Mostafa Pur-Yousef, Tiwall,com reported. Xaver Kroetz’s […]

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 14.The play, co-directed by Omid Niaz and Guglielmo Papa, is a co-production of La Società della Civetta, Italian theater company in Bologna, and Nan-o […]

“No tree is felled for production of paper for our books,” reads a sign on the bookstore of Roozbahan Publication on Enqelab St. Elaborating on this claim, manager of the publishing house Hamed Kani told ISNA: “Roozbahan Publication has an environment-friendly approach.”  He said half of the paper used by his company is produced from […]