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8/9/2011
Russia to Host Isfahan Cultural Week
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Tehran, August 8, 2011: Isfahan is slated to mount an exhibition at the INWETEX-CIS Travel Market Fair in the Russian city of St. Petersburg to introduce the Iranian city+s cultural capacities and its ancient arts.
Russian Consul General in Isfahan Ali Mostafa Billy met Isfahan Governor General Alireza Zaker Isfahani on Saturday and invited Iran to the St. Petersburg International Travel Market, IRNA reported.
Iran alongside 45 other countries, will take part in the grand International exhibition of travel industry, INWETEX-CIS exhibition, he stated.
“Isfahan is ready to participate and this is a good opportunity to display Isfahan+s various arts and handicrafts and present the high potential of the city,†said Zaker Isfahani.
Holding such cultural events in different countries can modify the understanding of Iranian culture and the image of Iran which has been distorted by western media, he added.
The St. Petersburg Travel Market is the largest tourism event in Russia that annually attracts more than 460 companies from over 40 countries and more than 9000 professionals in the tourism industry.
The exhibition will be held from October 12 to 14 at the Lenexpo Exhibition Center in St. Petersburg.
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 8/14/2012
Two earthquakes in Iran kill more than 300 and injure 5,000
Overcrowded hospitals in northwest Iran struggled to cope with thousands of earthquake victims on Sunday as rescuers raced to reach remote villages after two powerful quakes killed nearly 300 people. |
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 8/13/2012
Iranian wrestlers win 2 bronze medals
Iranian wrestlers Ehsan Naser Lashgari and Komeil Qasemi have won bronze medals at the London 2012 Olympic Games. |
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 8/6/2012
Iran to exhibit works by Gunther Uecker
Iran is planning to exhibit works by modern German sculptor and installation artist Gunther Uecker at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Arts. The event will be held from September 16 to November 1, 2012 ... |
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 8/4/2012
"When Artists Attack the King: Honoré Daumier and La Caricature, 1830-1835" opens at Cantor Arts Center
STANFORD, CA.- Long before iranian cartoonist Mahmoud Shokraiyeh was sentenced to 25 lashings for drawing a parliament member in a soccer jersey, 19th-century caricaturist Honoré Daumier and his colleagues ... |
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 8/1/2012
Farhadi’s film takes N America by storm
Iranian director Asghar Farhadi’s Oscar-winning film A Separation has taken the North America’s movie theaters by storm as the second top-grossing foreign-language film in 2012. |
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 7/30/2012
London to exhibit installation by Iran’s Shirin Sabahi
The Saatchi Gallery is slated to display an installation work created by the Iranian artist Shirin Sabahi in the British capital of London.
The event is part of the 2011 Contemporary Art Prize (CAP) ... |
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 7/24/2012
US, Iranian team excavate Siraf
A team of American and Iranian archaeologists has launched underwater excavations at the historical port of Siraf in the Persian Gulf. |
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 7/22/2012
Mutatis Mutandis: Group show curated by Cathrine David opens at Vienna's Secession
VIENNA.- Mutatis Mutandis brings together a number of works that explore the complexity of contemporary events, materiality, history, and memories, and propose possible re-presentations. Discontinuous ... |
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 7/7/2012
The 2nd Tehran Annual Digital Art Exhibition [TADAEX] was opened on Friday, July 6th.
The first day of The 2nd Tehran Annual Digital Art Exhibition [TADAEX] was opened among the unexpected attendance of the audience. |
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 7/2/2012
UNESCO registers Isfahan Friday Mosque
Isfahan’s Friday Mosque has been inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List, making it the 14th Iranian site registered on the roll. The independent, 21-member World Heritage Committee announced the ... |
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