ARTE, the public European cultural television channel and digital network, in partnership with RAM RAM Games and Business Goose studios, has unveiled its latest video game offering, 30 Birds. The game ...

Art The artists twisting Persian masterpieces with stunning color With dreamlike imagery and bold patterns, contemporary Iranian artists have reinterpreted the Persian miniature tradition.

Their encounter with Persian miniatures, a 15th-century Persian pictorial tradition, has infused 30 BIRDS with a unique and captivating visual style. For those eager to embark on this poetic and light ...

Persian mythology sits at the heart of 30 Birds, and the reason Zig's been called here in the first place is to witness the awakening of Simurgh, an enormous phoenix-like creature whose god-like ...

Mahmoud Farshchian was born on January 24, 1930, in the city of Isfahan, Iran. Born into a family with a deep appreciation for the arts—his father was a Persian carpet merchant—Farshchian developed an ...

Peter Sís' new book, "The Conference of the Birds," brings a 12th century Persian epic to life through the author/illustrator's lavish illustrations. Sís will discuss his book Tuesday at the ...

A Persian miniature is a small painting, whether a book illustration or a separate work of art intended to be kept in an album of such works. The techniques are broadly comparable to the Western and ...

Gorgeous Tribal Bird Design Antique Persian Qashqai Rug, Country Of Origin: Persia, Circa date: 1920 – The richly colored earthy tones of this tribal antique Persian Qashqai rug inspire a connection ...

Directing a play is about more than just entertaining an audience, says Hafiz Karmali, Brandeis Theater Company’s guest director of “The Conference of the Birds,” in production at the Laurie Theater ...

Great Neck resident Stanley Lipper captured a picture of this hungry blue jay in his backyard. (Photo by Stanley Lipper) So, I have taken it upon myself to feed the birds daily. Why? Maybe it’s ...

Mahmoud Farshchian was born on January 24, 1930, in the city of Isfahan, Iran. Farshchian's father, Gholamreza, was a Persian carpet merchant. His mother, Zahra, would often take Farshchian and his ...