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 visual artists including calligraphic painters Mahmoud Vatankhah and Kiarash Yaqoubi, as well as painter, animator and photographer Arash Lahiji, calligrapher Ali Ganji and painter Sepideh Satarinejad.On […]

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 adaptations, several theme parks, and be translated into 68 languages. And, starting next week, would inspire British Library, UK’s greatest, to put […]

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 different place at a different time, said Shams in a note on the event, Gallery Info reported.Each of the presented photos “is a […]

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 Film Festival.Held for three weeks at different venues in Palestinian cities of Gaza, Beit-ul-Moqaddas and Ramallah plus in the Italian cities Venice, Florence, Bologna, Rome and Naples, […]

A stage version of ‘Ten Little Indians’, a novel by the prolific British writer Agatha Christie, is underway at the main theater hall of Sharif Industrial University. The script is jointly written by Ehsan Erfani and Faraneh Valadkhani and tells the story of ten people who are lured into an old mansion, the only building on […]

A number of Iranian movies are presented at the two-day Iranian Film Festival in Singapore, slated for October 20-21.Held at the National University of Singapore, the festival is organized by the Iranian Embassy in Singapore in collaboration with the Institute of Middle East Studies at Singapore National University, IRNA reported.‘Bodyguard’ directed by acclaimed director Ebrahim […]

Donald Trump has always maintained that the Pierre-Auguste Renoir ‘Two Sisters’ painting in his New York apartment is the original but on Thursday, Art Institute of Chicago disagreed and insisted that the real ‘Two Sisters on the Terrace’ by Renoir is hanging on its walls and not Trump’s.Amanda Hicks, a spokeswoman for the institute told […]

Baran Theater Hall is to launch the play ‘Philadelphia’, written and directed by Babak Niushadan, October 22.The show, performed by Ali Azimipour and Atieh Alavi narrates the story of some young people obsessed with the so-called American dream, Tiwall.com wrote.It provides an image of young adults left wondering and puzzled in today’s world. Also it […]

‘Rock’ a 2015 documentary by film director Hamid Jafari received the award for the best short documentary at the 28th New Orleans Film Festival, October 11-19 in the US. Jafari’s film was awarded the Best Short Film at the Cinéma Vérité Festival in Tehran. It is a 26-minute film set in the south of Iran, […]

‘An Administration of the Second Gender’ is the title of a play currently being staged at Iranshahr Theater.Written and directed by Asghar Khalili, the play is an account of the role of women in politics during the reign of Nassereddin Shah Qajar, king of Iran from 1848 to 1896, Tiwall.com reported.The diverse cast comprises Saba […]