A total of 82 artworks realized over 240 billion rials ($4.8 million) in sales at the 19th edition of the Tehran Auction that focused on classic and modern Iranian art.
The 18th Tehran Auction for contemporary Iranian art, which was held online for the first time, grossed about 620 billion rial (over $1.235 million) on Friday night.
Two Iranian artists from the northwestern city of Tabriz have woven a rug with over 300 colors and content related to the FIFA World Cup 2022.
The rug measures 2*1.6 meters and was woven in two years, said Reza Lamei who has woven the rug with his brother.
He also said that the rug has over 2 million knots, depicting all the flags of participating ...
Head of Dezful Culture and Islamic Guidance office said that Iranian artist Hamid Tajallifard visual art works have been showcased in the Iran-Italy joint exhibition.
Speaking to IRNA, Alireza Charkhabi said that the exhibition with environment theme is underway in cooperation with Iranian artists and the International Art Textile Biennale (IATB) ...
Four galleries from Tehran attended Art Dubai, a leading West Asian international art fair taking place every March in the United Arab Emirates.
Parallel Circuit Gallery, +2 Gallery, Dastans Basement Gallery and Mohsen Gallery sent artworks for the Contemporary category.
Dastans Basement also showcased a collection in the Art Dubai Digital category ...
IRNA Irans Minister of Culture wrote in a Twitter message on Thursday that the artists of the country sympathize with the people of Lebanon over the explosion that happened in Beirut on Tuesday night.
Expressing condolences over the sad incident, Abbas Salehi tweeted that he was supposed to participate in a webinar about world cultural relations ...
ISNA | Mohammadali Ghasemi: A funeral ceremony was held on Saturday for the veteran Iranian film and theater actor Sirus Gorjestani. Sirus Gorjestani, who is most famous for his roles in the comic series and movies such as The Suspect Ran Away and Sperm Whale 2, died from a heart attack in a Tehran hospital on Thursday.
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MNA Veteran Iranian stage, cinema and TV actor Sirus Gorjestani died at the age of 76 on Thu. due to heart attack.
Born in 1944, Gorjestani, who was hospitalized in Shahid Lavasani Hospital of Tehran last night, died of a heart failure this morning.
His son, Siavash Gorjestani, in an interview with Mehr News Agency confirmed the death of this ...
MNA Nonagenarian actor Mohamad Ali Keshavarz passed away on Sunday at Atieh hospital in Tehran.
He was suffering from age-related diseases for the past several years.
Born in Isfahan in 1930, Keshavarz graduated from the Art School in acting. He started his professional acting career from playing in theaters in 1960.
During his 50-year professional ...
Press TV - Iranian vocal artist Mohammad Saeidi says music is the common language of all civilizations and music lovers beyond Iran have a good understanding of Iranian music.
Here is a short biography of brothers Mohammad and Ali Saeidi twin brothers who have been engaged in Iranian vocal art since tender age and the transcript of a brief interview ...
Press TV - A group of Iranian artists active in various fields of arts, including filmmaking and music, have penned a letter to their colleagues in other countries, asking them to raise awareness about the urgent need for taking collective global action to lift brutal sanctions that the Western countries, especially the US, have imposed on Iran as ...
The New York Times | Farah Nayeri: The Iranian artist Shirazeh Houshiary works out of a luminous studio in a leafy corner of southwest London. Her misty abstract paintings evoke the galaxy, the cosmos, the afterlife. To make them, she floods the canvas with water, pours pigment over it and draws tiny marks over the dried surface.
Abstraction is ...
FNA - Maestro Houshang Zarif, a great tar player of the contemporary music of Iran, passed away after cardiac arrest at the age of 81.
Zarif deceased late on Saturday after suffering cardiac arrest.
Zarif was born in 1938 in Tehran. He was a graduate of the Persian National Music Conservatory in Tehran; where he studied tar with Mousa Maroufi....
ISNA | Hadi Zand & Pouria Pakizeh: The 38th edition of Fajr Film Festival wrapped up on Tuesday night with the awards of each category being presented to the winners.
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Tasnim The 38th Fajr Film Festival of Iran announced its winners on Tuesday, with Majid Majidis The Sun winning the award for best motion picture.
The closing ceremony of the festival, known as Irans major cinematic event, was held at Tehrans Milad Tower on Tuesday night, with the minister of culture in attendance.
The Sun, directed by Majid ...
Al-Monitor | Saeid Jafari: Confronting a boycott by Iranian artists, the Fajr International Film Festival announced the cancellation of its opening ceremony, originally scheduled for Feb. 1. In a statement released Jan. 15, festival organizers cited the public atmosphere of the community in sympathy with the grieving families of those killed in Iran's ...
Press TV - Veteran Iranian theater, cinema and television actress, Shahla Riahi, who was also the countys first female director, has passed away at the age of 92.
Riahis son confirmed to IRNA news agency that his mother had died on Tuesday night.
Born inTehran on February 7, 1927, Shahla Riahi, whose real name was Ghodratzaman Vafadoost, began ...
Tehran Times - Veteran stage and screen actor Ebrahim Abadi died at a Tehran hospital on Thursday after going into a coma two weeks ago following a lung biopsy. He was 85, the Persian media announced.
Abadi was born in Tabriz. He studied acting in an art school in Tehran and then continued his education in stage directing at the Academy of Performing ...
FNA - Globally-renowned Iranian traditional music maestro of kamancheh Kayhan Kalhor was awarded on Sunday the prestigious WOMEX artist prize for bringing the Persian classical music tradition to the ears of people all over the world.
Kalhor received the WOMEX Artist Award 2019 today in Tampere, Finland "for the mastery and virtuosity of the kamancheh,...
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