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Met curator Sheila Canby to lecture on Safavid era artist in Tehran
TEHRAN -- Sheila Canby, the curator of the Department of Islamic Art of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is scheduled to deliver a lecture about the Safavid era artist Aliquli Jabbadar (1666-1694) at...
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Iranian writer to see “Argo” for penning “The Broken Paw”
TEHRAN -- Screenwriter Farhad Tohidi plans to see “Argo”, a Hollywood drama about the 1980 joint CIA-Canadian secret operation to extract six fugitive American diplomatic personnel out of revolutionary...
View ArticleEuropean experts mulling over restoration of Max Ernst’s painting of Tehran...
TEHRAN -- A group of experts from Switzerland’s Beyeler Foundation is mulling over restoration of a painting by German surrealist painter and sculptor Max Ernst (1891-1976), which is kept at the...
View ArticleRain of Ghadir Intl. Literary Meeting opens in Tehran
TEHRAN -- The 3rd Rain of Ghadir International Literary Meeting opened at Tehran’s Sureh-Mehr Hall on Saturday. Groups of Iranian and foreign poets and literati attended the opening ceremony of the...
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Tehran intl. press exhibit opens
TEHRAN -- The 19th International Exhibition of Press and News Agencies opened at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini Mosalla on Sunday. Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Mohammad Hosseini and a number of...
View ArticleRussian literati, scholars visit Iran
TEHRAN -- A group of Russian literati and scholars will travel to Iran to participate in a series of literary meetings, which will begin in Tehran on November 14. This visit is part of the Literary...
View ArticleCinéma Vérité announces intl. competition lineup
TEHRAN -- Cinéma Vérité, the Iranian international festival for documentary films, has announced the lineup for the international competition. A total of 32 documentaries from 14 countries will go...
View ArticleItalian sculptor Luca Marovino to hold workshops in Tehran
TEHRAN -- Italian sculptor Luca Marovino will arrive in Tehran today to hold workshops for Iranian artists for 12 days. The workshops will begin tomorrow at Saba Sang, a stone cutting company...
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IAF highlights Hossein Mahjubi’s 50 years of painting
TEHRAN -- Fifty years of Hossein Mahjubi’s achievements in painting was commemorated during a ceremony at the Iranian Artists Forum on Sunday evening. Mahjubi, a number of cultural figures, and his...
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Italian festival awards “The Last Step”
TEHRAN -- The award-winning Iranian movie “The Last Step” directed by Ali Mosaffa won the Love and Psyche Prize at the MedFilm Festival in Rome. The film received the award for “the high artistic...
View ArticleIranian cultural festival underway at Rome university
TEHRAN -- An Iranian cultural festival is currently underway at the Salesian Pontifical University in Rome. Calligraphy works by Mohammad Sadat-Kiaii and a collection of Iranian handicrafts have...
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Tehran institute to commemorate Iranologist Werner Sundermann
TEHRAN -- Iran’s House of Writers will hold a commemoration ceremony today for the recently deceased German Iranologist Werner Sundermann. Scholar Amir-Kavus Balazadeh, Mohammad Shokri-Fumeshi, Ali...
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Behzad Abdi to record “Che” music in Ukraine
TEHRAN -- Music for “Che”, a film about the Iranian veteran Mostafa Chamran, will be recorded in Ukraine, said composer Behzad Abdi on Tuesday. Shooting is underway on location in Paveh, a town in...
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Press Union of the Islamic World meeting opens in Tehran
TEHRAN -- The second meeting of the Press Union of the Islamic World (PUIW) opened at the Interior Ministry in Tehran on Tuesday. The meeting has been organized by the Ministry of Culture and Islamic...
View ArticleIranian playwrights to meet Armenian writers in Yerevan
TEHRAN -- A group of nine Iranian playwrights left Tehran for Yerevan today to attend a meeting with members of the Writers’ Union of Armenia. The weeklong meeting has been organized based on an...
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Friends gather to celebrate release of Ahmadi’s “Voice of Old Tehran 2”
TEHRAN -- A large number of fans, old friends and colleagues of the Iranian actor and singer Morteza Ahmadi came together at the Iranian Artists Forum (IAF) on Tuesday evening to celebrate his latest...
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“Simorgh” wins best play award at India Theater Olympiad
TEHRAN – “Simorgh”, a stage adaptation of Attar’s “The Conference of the Birds”, has been named best play at the 20th India Theater Olympiad. The play was awarded a plaque of honor, and the...
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Iranian documentary film festival kicks off in Tehran
TEHRAN -- Cinéma Vérité, the Iranian international festival for documentary films, opened on Saturday in several of Tehran’s theaters. Felestin, Asre-Jadid and Cinéma Vérité theaters are playing host...
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Armenian, Iranian musicians to perform recital in Tehran
TEHRAN -- Russian-born Armenian pianist Artur Avanesov and Iranian viola virtuoso Adel Pursamadi are scheduled to perform a recital in Tehran. Compositions by the Russian musician Dmitri Shostakovich...
View ArticleIranian, Malaysian, Indonesian artists preparing for joint exhibit in Bali
TEHRAN -- Artists from Iran, Malaysia and Indonesia will showcase their works in a joint exhibition, which will be held on the island of Bali, Indonesia in April 2013. Organized by the...
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