TEHRAN – “Limit” by Javad Darai was selected as best foreign short film at the International Hollywood Hills Awards, the organizers announced on Sunday. The short film highlights the problems that the disabled face in the society. Based in the Hollywood Hills, the festival rewards outstanding filmmakers who not only write their stories but also […]

TEHRAN – Japanese artist Noriyuki Haraguchi, whose Oil Pool sculpture is installed at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMCA), will be visiting Tehran this week to restore his sculpture, TMCA has announced. Haraguchi executed his first Oil Pool sculpture in 1971. A later version was exhibited to great acclaim at “Documenta 6” in the […]

TEHRAN – Iranian director Karim Lakzadeh’s “A Girl in the Room” was selected as best short at the Beirut International Film Festival, the organizers announced on Thursday. The film is about an elderly man and his friends at a guesthouse, in which they are preparing to welcome the man’s daughter who is coming to visit […]

TEHRAN – Raz Media Group, affiliated with the Qom Seminary, has produced two documentaries on ISIS and the shoddy Chinese cosmetics increasingly smuggled into Iran. Co-directed by Emran Cheraghi and Mehdi Keshtkar, “Chinese Skin” puts its spotlight on the shoddy Chinese cosmetics and toiletries that are illegally imported into Iran. The film also focuses on […]

TEHRAN – Prominent Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu’s 1950 drama “The Munekata Sisters” will go on screen at the cinematheque of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art at 5 p.m. on Sunday. The film is about Setsuko, who is unhappily married to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a bad drinking habit, but she is […]

‘Whispers Behind the Frontline’ a play written by celebrated director and playwright Alireza Naderi and directed by Ashkan Kheilnejad is being restaged after five years at Shahrzad Theater in Tehran.A mix of comedy, drama and tragedy, it is about eight soldiers during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war at the time of the ceasefire.The cast includes Navid […]

A bronze bust of Iranian Olympic gold-medal wrestler Gholam-Reza Takhti (1930-1968) was unveiled on October 4 at the American Sport Art Museum & Archives (ASAMA) in the city of Daphne, Alabama, the US.The North American Iranian Friendship Society (NAIFS) presented ASAMA a bronze sculpture of the late legendary wrestler and national hero at a special […]

The Nobel Peace Prize for 2017 was awarded to ICAN, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.The organization is receiving the award for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons.Through binding international agreements, […]

A hush fell over a packed Christie’s salesroom October 6 at its ‘Post-War and Contemporary’ sale in London as its star lot ‘Study of Red Pope,’ a 1962 work by Irish-born British figurative painter Francis Bacon (1909-1992) failed to elicit a bid. It had been estimated that it could fetch £60 million ($78.4m).“People were in the room who […]

A solo exhibition of sketch art by visual artist Mohammad-Ali Keyhani is underway at Kabiri Art Galleryin north Tehran.  Titled ‘Lines of Life,’ the exhibit features a collection of drawings with emphasis on lines, hatching and cross-hatching, Galleryinfo.ir reported. “A drawing is very much like a life; big and small lines together form an image. […]