• TEHRAN. (HONARONLINE) – Two projects by artists Kolsoum Salehi and Hamidreza Azad shared the third edition of the Vista Contemporary Art Prize held at the Iranian Artists Forum on Friday.

  • On Friday, January 17, Parsian Azadi Hotel in northern part of Tehran played host to the 12th Tehran Auction – a two-hour event during which 118 contemporary artworks by more than 100 Iranian artists went under the hammer, grossing 310,717,000,000 billion rials. The collection includes precious paintings and sculptures by renowned deceased and living artists, including Hossein Zenderoudi, Parvaneh Etemadi, Parviz Kalantari, Abbas Kiarostami, Aydin Aghdashloo and Jazeh Tabatabai.

  • TEHRAN. (HONARONLINE) – Celebrated Iranian kamancheh virtuoso Kayhan Kalhor won the Artist Award of the globalFEST, North America’s most important world music industry event, which was held in New York last week.

  • Pieces by Iranian musicians and Azerbaijani composers were performed in Tehran’s Vahdat Hall by Iran’s National Orchestra in a program titled Azerbaijani-Iranian Music Night on January 16. Azerbaijani conductor Agaverdi Pashayev was the guest conductor of the Thursday night event. Vocalist Fakhri Kazim Nijat and tar player Sahib Pashazadeh, both from Azerbaijan, accompanied the orchestra during the performance, which featured a repertoire of songs including Asgarin Ariyasi, Sana da Qalmaz, San Siz, Ayriliq, Karanful, In Memory of Saba and Shur Afarin, and compositions by the late celebrated Iranian composer Hossein Dehlavi.

  • TEHRAN. (HONARONLINE) – Iranian director Mohammadreza Jamal plans to stage Italian playwright Dario Fo’s “The Virtuous Burglar” (“Non tutti i ladri vengono a nuocere”) at Tehran’s Neauphle-le-Chateau Theater on January 21.

  • TEHRAN. (HONARONLINE) – A lineup of nine Iranian movies will be reviewed during a special program named Iranian Film Days at the Beyoglu Academy in Istanbul.

  • TEHRAN. (HONARONLINE) – The House of Poetry and Literature in Tehran has established a library and museum for Nader Ebrahimi, the writer of the acclaimed stories such as “Tomorrow Is Not Like Today”, “Ibn Mashghaleh”, “A Quiet Loving” and “Dragon’s Tale”.

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