Visual Arts Festival for Youth opens  

TEHRAN – The 27th edition of the Visual Arts Festival for Youth opened online on Sunday as the entries are physically on view at the Iranian Artists Forum.

Iran biennial of ceramic art to resume after 9-year hiatus

TEHRAN – The 11th National Biennial of Contemporary Iranian Ceramic Art will resume after a nine-year hiatus at Tehran’s Niavaran Cultural Center in October.

Iran’s art galleries resume activities as coronavirus curbs eased

TEHRAN – Art galleries across Iran have been allowed to resume activities since April 20 after an over two-month shutdown due to the new coronavirus pandemic, the Visual Arts Office director Hadi Mozaffari has said.

Officials call on artists to retract withdrawals from Fajr festivals

TEHRAN – Top officials of the Fajr festivals, which Iran organizes every year during February to celebrate the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, have asked Iranian artists to retract their decisions to withdraw from the festivals.

By Manijeh Rezapoor

Iran ponders legal action against “Iran Modern: The Empress of Art” authors

TEHRAN – Iran’s Visual Arts Office director Hadi Mozaffari said on Monday that the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance is considering taking legal action against the writers of “Iran Modern: The Empress of Art” published in New York last September.

By Manijeh Rezapoor

Culture ministry seeks to establish national guild of Iranian artists

​TEHRAN – Iran’s Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance is seeking to establish a national guild of artists, the new director of the ministry’s Visual Arts Office, Hadi Mozaffari, said on Tuesday.