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7/19/2011
Tehran museum to showcase teahouse paintings tomorrow
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An exhibition displaying 100 teahouse paintings by 15 veterans will open tomorrow at Tehran’s Imam Ali (AS) Religious Arts Museum
The exhibit is arranged to review and study teahouse paintings, secretary of the program Delavar Bozorgnia said on Monday.
Several workshops teaching teahouse painting by experts Mohammadreza Hamidi and Mohammad Farahani have also been arranged during the month-long program, he added.
The major theme of this art is religion and it focuses on the events of Karbala (the martyrdom of Imam Hussein {AS} and his companions). The epics of Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh are also of great importance in this genre of painting.
Morshed Valiollah Torabi is expected to perform naqqali during the program. Naqqali is a kind of Iranian dramatic performance, in which a skilled performer called naqqal ‘storyteller’ tells a story or recites epic poems particularly from the Shahnameh, Ferdowsi’s masterpiece.
Morshed Mohsen Mirza-Ali will also perform pardeh-khani which is a form of naqqali mostly dedicated to tragic stories of Muslim leaders, especially the Imams of the Shia.
The collection contains works by veterans including Mohammad Modabber, Abbas Bolukifar, Hossein Hamedani, Ahmad Khalili, Hossein Qollar-Aqasi, and Mohammad Farahani.
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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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