Play About Prostitutes Is Banned From Iran’s Fajr Festival
Iran’s Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance has refused to reissue a permit for the play “A Barren Day” which was set to open on January 22 at the 36th Fajr International Theater Festival...
Iranian Films Win Awards At Venice Film Festival
By Ahmad Rafat
Iranian filmmakers and actors won three awards in the Horizons (Orizzonti) section of the Venice Film Festival earlier this month. The section runs parallel to the main festival competition.
Dominique Welinski and René...
Pioneering Film Poster Artist Qazi Falls on Hard Times
Manouchehr Qazizadeh, fondly known as “Qazi," was one of Iran’s leading film poster artists before the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Now destitute, he is forced to sell his oil paintings in the streets of Tehran,...
Israeli Museum Celebrates Iranian Graphic Art
By Ahmad Rafat
An exhibition of contemporary Iranian poster art is currently on in a highly unexpected location: the L.A. Mayer Museum for Islamic Art in Jerusalem. Ending on November 19, the exhibition is a...
Monir Farmanfarmaian, Y.Z. Kami Star in London Sufism Exhibition
By Tara Biglari
Monir Farmanfarmaian and Y.Z. Kami are two of the world's most prominent Iranian-born artists. Their works were recently on show in a London exhibition celebrating the 700th anniversary of The Garden of...
Deaf and Mute Iranian Artist Esfandiarpour Remembered in London Show
By Tara Biglari
An exhibition by the contemporary artist Darvish recently opened at the Asia House cultural center in London. The artist joined the world-famous dancer and choreographer Akram Khan for a panel discussion at the opening.
Darvish, who has...
Painter Katty Biglari Exhibits in D.C., Talks About Her Art
Katty Biglari is an Iranian-born abstract painter living and working in Washington, D.C. She just opened a group show with three other artists at Gallery B in Bethesda, Maryland.
The show, "Us Four" (ending March...
Iran-Saudi Rivalry: How Far Does It Go? Interview with Author Simon Mabon
Simon Mabon is a lecturer in international relations at Lancaster University in the U.K. His book "Saudi Arabia and Iran: Soft Power Rivalry in the Middle East," which is currently being updated, is a...
Iranian Directors Take Part in Berlin Film Festival
By Azadeh Karimi and Ali Eshtiaq
Several Iranian directors took part in the 68th Berlin International Film Festival late last month.
Unusually, women artists claimed as many as seven of the 11 prizes. The winner of...
Louvre Museum Stages Exhibition in Tehran
The Louvre Museum has just opened the first large-scale exhibition organized by a major Western museum in Iran. Held at the National Museum of Iran, “The Louvre in Tehran” traces the creation of the...
