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Tehran’s Dead Trees Turned into Magnificent Artworks

Fatemeh Askarieh -
Several dead trees of Tehran’s Valiasr Street, one of the longest streets in the Middle East, have been carved by wood artists and turned into beautiful pieces of art ahead of the Persian New Year or Nowruz.
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Wednesday’s Lady; Traditional Doll Linked to Spring-Cleaning

Fatemeh Askarieh -
A doll designer has unveiled a new doll inspired from a Persian folklore tradition related to the New Year, which is still reverberating in northern provinces of Gilan and Azarbaijan.
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Photos of Eminent Iranian Women on Tehran Billboards

IFP Editorial Staff -
Tehran Municipality is displaying the portraits of a number of prominent Iranian women on billboards across the capital.
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Marriage Proposal at Iranian Photo Festival Raises Eyebrows

IFP Editorial Staff -
The guests of the closing ceremony of the “Image of the Year Festival” in Tehran were surprised when a young photographer chose the event to make a marriage proposal to his colleague on the stage.
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Inside the First Iranian Museum Dedicated to a Female Artist

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Monir Shahroudi Farmanfarmaian, an acclaimed 93-year-old artist known for her elaborate mosaics made of mirrored glass, is among Iran’s biggest artistic names at home and abroad.
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Tehran Hosts Live Fashion Design Contest

Fatemeh Askarieh -
A live fashion design contest was recently held in the Iranian capital Tehran as part of 7th Fajr International Fashion and Clothing Festival.
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Fashion, Clothing Festival Underway in Tehran

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The 7th Fajr Fashion and Clothing Festival has kicked off in the Iranian capital Tehran and will be open to visitors until March 4, 2018.
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Enamelling; Unique, Ancient Art of Iran’s Isfahan

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Meenakari or enamelling is the art of colouring and ornamenting the surface of metals by fusing over it brilliant colours that are decorated in an intricate design.
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Iranian Artist Teaching Quake-Hit Children How to Paint

Fatemeh Askarieh -
A painter from the quake-hit city of Sarpol-e Zahab in Western Iran has lost everything he had in the recent quake, but is still hopeful about the future, and tries to raise the morale of his compatriots.
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Tehran, Lahijan Host Snow Sculpture Festivals

Fatemeh Askarieh -
The Iranian capital of Tehran and the city of Lahijan in Gilan province have played host to celebrations of ice artworks created by citizens during the recent snowy days.
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Fajr Festival’s Street Theatres Well Received in Tehran

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The 36th edition of Fajr International Theatre Festival, the most important theatre event in Iran, is underway in Tehran in various fields, including street performances.
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Belgium Centre for Fine Arts to Pay Tribute to Abbas Kiarostami

Fatemeh Askarieh -
The Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, plans to commemorate the late legendary Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami by screening a number of his movies.
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Iranian Audiences Wonderful: European Theatre Festival Organizer

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A group of European theatre festival organizer who recently visited Iran have praised the Iranian theatre audiences saying these people are ‘wonderful’ in terms of their enthusiasm and reactions to what they see on the stage.
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Chinese, Iranian Musicians Give Joint Performance in Memory of Seafarers

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On the third day of the thirty-third International Fajr Music Festival, a band from China has given a joint performance with Iranian musicians and dedicated one of the songs to the Iranian sailors who are feared dead in a ship collision in Eastern China.
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“Berlin, Rome to Display Items on Loan from Iranian Museum”

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Berlin and Rome are in talks with Tehran to open exhibitions putting on show items on loan from Tehran’s Museum of Contemporary Arts.
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Iran Wins Two Prizes at Montreal Film Awards

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The Iranian film “Kupal” has won the Grand Prix Narrative Feature at the international feature competition section of the Third Montreal Independent Film Awards. Another Iranian work also won the Grand Prix narrative Short.
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Growing Popularity of Street Arts, Graffiti in Iran’s Bandar Abbas

Fatemeh Askarieh -
Graffiti is referred to writings or drawings that have been scribbled, scratched, or painted illegally on a wall or other surface, often within public view.
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Iranian Painter Uses Nails to Create Artwork on Violence against Children

Fatemeh Askarieh -
Renowned Iranian painter and cartoonist Bozorgmehr Hosseinpour has used hundreds of nails provided by his fans to create an artwork on Universal Children’s Day.
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Legendary Singer Holds Benefit Concert for Iran Quake-Hit People

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Legendary Iranian vocalist, Shahram Nazeri, and the Kamkars, Iran’s leading Kurdish family music ensemble, joined together in a concert to raise funds for the victims of the deadly earthquake which shattered their homeland Kermanshah in western Iran.
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Iranian Painter Depicting Loneliness in Wall Paintings

Fatemeh Askarieh -
A little known Iranian painter is trying to illustrate the loneliness of man in his single-colour wall paintings.
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Vienna University of Music Keen to Promote Ties with Iran

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A senior official with University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna has expressed the hope that Iran and Austria would expand their cooperation in the field of music.
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Iranian Play to Portray Lives of Polish WWII Refugees

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A play named “Isfahan, the City of Polish Children” written by the Iranian dramatist Mohammad Charmshir and choreographed by Roxana Mehrafzun will be staged in City Theatre of Tehran from November 27 to December 3.
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Several Works by Iranian Artists Sold at Christie’s London

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Iranian artworks at the Christie’s sales of ‘Middle Eastern, Modern and Contemporary Art’ and ‘Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds’ fetched high prices.
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Cartoonist Trying to Correct Misconceptions about Iranian Women

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On the sidelines of the First Art Festival of Farsi-speakers in Europe, the solo exhibition of Iranian cartoonistPante’aVaeznia will be held with the theme of ‘Women's rights in Iran’.
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13 Iranian Artworks Put Up for Auction at Christie’s London

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Thirteen Iranian artworks along with 44 other lots are to go under the hammer at the 23rd edition of Christie’s sale of ‘Middle Eastern, Modern and Contemporary Art’, slated for Oct. 25 in London.
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