Art And Culture

The Office for Metropolitan Architecture OMA has released ‘PXP: the shared city’, a proposal to create an urban space dedicated for sharing and innovation, as part of the Réinventer Paris plan…

Three films from Iran will take part in the 15th Tiburon International Film Festival (TIFF) in Tiburon, California, April 8-15.

Dramas ‘Oblivion Season’ by Abbas Rafei and ‘The Buffalo’ by…

The Iranian ‘Peace Choir’ led by Mohammadreza Pourmoqadam will participate in the ‘Renaissance’ international contest and festival for young music performers in the city of Gyumri in Armenia.

The 53rd conference of art research at Tehran’s Negarestan Garden on March 12  was dedicated to the 19th century master of calligraphy Emad al-Kottab Seifi.

Contemporary calligraphers…

A startup backed by Sean Parker of Facebook and Napster fame is trying to encourage Hollywood studios and exhibitors to secure anti-piracy technology that will offer new releases in the home on…

A book about the life and works of Iranian writer and documentary filmmaker, the late Seyyed Morteza Avini, has been compiled in 16 chapters.

The author of ‘Avini’s Biography’ Mehdi…

Coinciding with the opening of Iran’s pavilion at the Paris Book Fair 2016 (March 17-20), the late Abolhassan Najafi, a man of letters, will be honored by the Iranian Embassy in the French capital…

The international exhibition ‘Rite of Passage’ issued a call for artists to submit their works of art for a show at San Francisco City Hall, California on March 25.

The first Tehran Art Fair will be held November 10-13 at Goftogoo Park in northwest Tehran.

Secretary of the fair Ayat Qasempur, said that collectors and gallery owners from all over the…

Coinciding with the 90th birth anniversary of the late renowned bibliographer Iraj Afshar (1925-2011), a ceremony to honor him was held at the conference hall of the National Library and Archives…

Christie’s Dubai Art Auction celebrates its 10th anniversary on March 16 at Emirates Towers Hotel, after a 4-day long exhibition and sale.

The short period of spectacular sales will have…

Iran cinemas will screen five new films in the Persian New Year Norouz (starts March 20), which all have potential for becoming blockbusters.

Movies set for Norouz screenings will hit movie…

A sculpture collection by artist Maryam Shahidi, titled ‘Corn Dream’ was recently on view at Vaali Art Gallery in Tehran.

The series, a follow up of two earlier collections under the same…

Two books from Iran were among the finalists of the annual competition ‘Best Book Design from all over the World’ in Germany.

Russian miniaturist Vladimir Aniskin has created two micro books with pages sized at 70 to 90 microns (0.07 mm to 0.09 mm). This is 88 times smaller than a book created by Japanese masters in 2013…

A ceremony to commemorate artists who passed away during the current Persian calendar year (ends March 19) was held on Wednesday at Nazerzadeh Hall of Iranshahr Theater Complex in Tehran.

Iranian filmmaker Mehrdad Oskouei has received this year’s True Vision Award at the True/False Film Festival, an annual documentary festival, held in the city of Columbia, Missouri, the US, March…

The US art organization Real Art Ways will start a new program titled ‘Behind the Scenes’ from March 10, where a movie by renowned Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami is scheduled to be screened…

The group exhibition ‘Fearless: the next wave of artists from Iran’ will open in three galleries in Iran and one in the UAE.

Curated by the veteran painter, sculptor Fereydoun Ave, the…

Salar Jung Museum (SJM) in Hyderabad, India, will soon add a gallery of Islamic art.

International auction house Bonhams is to hold a Modern and Contemporary Middle Eastern Art sale in London on April 27, featuring some of Iran’s most prominent contemporary artists.

Japan will host the ‘Contemporary Architecture of Iran’ exhibition from March 15-21, in the follow up to the showcasing of Iranian architecture at the Venice Biennale (May 25 to November 27, 2015…

An exhibition of artworks by three young Iranian artists is on view at Guven Park gallery in Ankara, Turkey.

They include paintings by Ehsan Hassani, Vahid Ahmadzadeh and Seyyed Hadi Haq-…

Four art installation projects were undertaken by students of veteran artist Pouya Arianpour in “less-artistic spaces and bizarre venues” in Tehran urban areas on Friday (March 4).

The idea…

An exhibition of works by Belgian artist Win Delvoy opened at Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art on March 7.

The collection includes over 107 volume works, oil painting on canvas, bronze and…