Art

Iranian art gallery manager Anahita Ghabaian Etehadieh has been invited by the French Minister of Culture to receive the Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters in early 2020.

The municipality of Beirut has installed three stone sculptures created by Iranian artists in the Ghobeiry neighbourhood of the Lebanese capital.

An exhibition was recently held in Tehran where spoons replaced conventional canvases, displaying characters of mythology.

Tehran recently hosted an event called “paternitecture”, featuring the application of patterns in manmade environments of contemporary Iran.

An autumn festival is being held during the season’s last days in Tehran’s National Garden, a historical area dating back to Qajar era.

A tapestry exhibition of an Iranian artist is underway in the Shirin Gallery of Tehran. The exhibition consists of 24 various works created by Shahrzad Gharavi.

An Iranian artist couple have run an exhibition called "Leili and Shirin" to put on show in two different ways some works about the society’s view of the women.

Javad Alizadeh, a self-taught Iranian cartoonist with 30 international awards, has talked about his four-decade career as one of the most successful cartoonists of Iran.

A solo exhibition of paintings by renowned French filmmaker Jean-Claude Carrière was recently held at the Dastaan Gallery of Tehran.

The ninth edition of Tehran Sculpture Symposium is underway here in the Iranian capital, bringing together dozens of artists from across the world.

Iranian surrealist painter and senior research associate at Harvard University, Sara Ashrafi, has won the first prize at an annual gala held by the Massachusetts General Hospital for the best painting about the Alzheimer’s disease.

A painting exhibition entitled “Wind” is currently underway in Tehran, displaying works by Shohreh Mehran.

Iran has unveiled new anti-US murals and artworks on the walls of the former US embassy in Tehran on the eve of the anniversary of the takeover of the “Den of Espionage”.

Handwritten books penned by Muslim authors throughout history bear witness to their attachment to the Prophet of Islam, Muhammad (PBUH).

A book titled “The Boxer” written and illustrated by Hassan Mousavi has won the first prize at the 27th Biennial of Illustrations Bratislava (BIB) 2019 in Slovakia.

Three unique murals by Iranian and Japanese artists have been donated to a famous museum in Tehran named after Reza Abbasi, a prominent artist of the Safavid era.

A solo exhibition of calligraphy works by Iranian artist Omid Khakbaz, dubbed “Turning Epochs”, was recently held at Tehran’s Atbin Gallery.

A selection of photos by famous Japanese photographer Kenro Izu are on display in an exhibition in the Iranian capital.

A group art exhibition featuring works of talented Iranian painters has opened in Tehran, focusing on the human body as the main theme.

The largest pictorial carpet of the world has been woven in the central Iranian city of Isfahan.

The Tree of Life, a conceptual work of art created by two Iranian artists, is on display at the French Institute of Muslim Civilisation (IFCM) in Lyon.

The exterior wall of the Italian Embassy in Tehran is playing host to a joint Iran-Italy artistic project.

“Pink Moon” is the title of an Iranian artist’s painting exhibition, which is being held these days at the Seihoun Gallery of Tehran.

"Steve's House" has been opened in the Iranian city of Kashan as a bridge between the city's local architectural heritage and a large collection of famous American photographer Steve McCurry.

A photo exhibition called "The Beautiful Iran" has opened at the state Russian museum of photography, showcasing photographs of Iran’s historical, architectural and mysterious attractions and landscapes to the audience.