TEHRAN – A great number of Iranian art elites came together at the Tehran Book Garden on Friday evening to attend an inauguration ceremony for the Tehran Art Space, a large gallery that hosted the prominent sculptor Parviz Tanavoli and his students during its debut exhibition titled “Heech and All”. Tanavoli’s latest works from his […]

TEHRAN – Serbian Professor Darko Tanaskovic has that efficacy is the absolute miracle of the poems of the Persian poet and scientist Omar Khayyam. He made the remarks in a meeting organized at Tehran’s Niavaran Cultural Center on Thursday to celebrate the Khayyam millennium. “The messages of his poetry are so obvious that they directly […]

French actor Jean-Pierre Léaud, best known for Francois Truffaut’s 400 Blows and Jean Luc Godard’s Masculin Feminin, is heading his way to help celebrate the 36th edition of Fajr International Film Festival in Tehran. The French actor’s career has gone hand in hand with the great directors of the French New Wave, but he has […]

TEHRAN – Iranian musician Pezhham Akhavass will give a performance at the 2018 San Francisco World Percussion Arts Festival, the organizers have announced. Akhavass is scheduled to play daf and tonbak, two Iranian percussion instruments, at the festival, which will be running on July 21 and 22. Japanese legendary taiko drummers Yoshikazu Fujimoto and Yoko […]

Iranian cartoonist Saeed Sadeghi won the golden hat of 57th Knokke-Heist Cartoon Festival in Belgium. The Cartoon is about the Moai – the large stone statues on Easter Island. Cartoonists from Portugal and Bulgaria received the Silver and Bronze Hats respectively. Participants were free to choose the theme of their entries. Displaying of selected works has […]

 Iranian documentary feature ‘Weavers of Imagination’ directed by Mohammad Sadegh Jafari will compete at the 26th American Psychological Association Film Festival in San Francisco, US. ‘Weavers of Imagination’ recounts the life of a number of visually-impaired people who weave rugs together and how the simple fact of working together fills them with a great sense of happiness. […]

The 18th International Agricultural Products, Equipments, Machineries, Foodstuff and Related Industries Exhibition kicked off in Tabriz, East Azerbaijan province, at Permanent Ground For Tabriz International Exhibition Co., on Tuesday. The exhibition is open until July 07, with the participation of representatives from Oman, Azerbaijan and a number of related companies from across the country at […]

TEHRAN – On Sunday, UNESCO added an ensemble of Sassanian historical cities in southern Iran to its world heritage list. The Sassanid era (224 CE–651) is of very high importance in the history of the nation, under which Persian art and architecture experienced a general renaissance. Architecture often took grandiose proportions such as palaces at […]

 Famous Iraqi-Dutch film director Mohamed Al-Daradji is going to make his new film in cooperation with Iran, saying that he would like to introduce the two nations’ culture to the world through cinema. “The eight years of war between Iran and Iraq caused a lot of destruction but long after that when Iraq once again […]

 A joint exhibition featuring Iranian and Turkish artists’ artworks has kicked off in Istanbul, according to Turkish media. An exhibition dubbed ‘Immorality’ has recently opened at the art gallery of Istanbul’ Adahan Hotel, Turkish Daily Sabah reported on Monday. The exhibition is organized through the efforts by Iranian artist and curator Tima Jam in cooperation with […]