Dazzled by Art

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News and events in brief LeCoq offers James Beard Award countdown menu Ahead of the James Beard Awards ceremony on Monday, June 16, competition finalist Tara Monsod, executive chef of LeCoq restaurant in La Jolla, is presenting a special countdown menu with a la carte dishes based on the day’s fresh catches and market runs. Monsod will cook and serve from LeCoq’s bar starting at 5 p.m. each Thursday through June 12, and she will curate the bar’s music playlist as well. Potential dishes include Hokkaido scallop, cured mackerel and rockfish with vegetables to pair with it. Learn more at instagram.com/p/DI4r7VuToDB. Several La Jolla institutions to receive $1M grants A package of $7 million in grants is headed to seven research institutions in San Diego, many of them in La Jolla, the Conrad Prebys Foundation announced. Each institution will receive a $1 million grant, including La Jolla’s Sanford Burnham Prebys, La Jolla Institute for Immunology, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, ...

In the Book Pages Q&A, the science-fiction and fantasy writer answers questions about the books in his life. Adrian Tchaikovsky is the award-winning author of many books of science fiction and fantasy, including The Children of Time, Final Architecture and Tyrant Philosophers series. His new book, “Bee Speaker,” is the third in the Dogs of War series. Q. Please tell readers about your new book, “Bee Speaker,” which is part of your Dogs of War series. As “Bear Head” did, “Bee Speaker” moves the timeframe on from the previous book. In this case the gathering crisis on Earth we saw foreshadowed in the previous book (environmental, political, etc.) has come to a head and led to a general collapse, which the Martian colonies were able to weather with the aid of Bees. Now Mars has received a call for aid from Earth, also apparently from Bees, but the intrepid Martian explorers who respond don’t understand the situation they’re about to get into, or the problems they’ve brought with th...

The Orange County Museum of Art examines California youth culture from the inside during its current rendition of the California Biennial, on view through January 4, 2026. Installation view: "2025 California Biennial: Desperate, Scared, But Social," 2025. Orange County Museum of Art. Yubo Dong, ofstudio American popular culture has been obsessed with California youth culture since Baby Boomers started driving. The Beach Boys. Surfing. “Gidget.” The Summer of Love. Jefferson Airplane. Haight-Ashbury. “American Graffiti.” The obsession never abated. Skateboarding. The Bones Brigade. Ocean Pacific. Valley Girls. “Saved by the Bell.” Compton. “Beverly Hills 90210.” Hollister. Brandy Melville. “The Hills.” “The O.C.” California kids are the original influencers. The Orange County Museum of Art examines California youth culture from the inside during its current rendition of the California Biennial, “Desperate, Scared, But Social,” on view through January 4, 2026. Titled after t...

Black Earth Rising seasons oppression with the climate folly — the museum can do better. After my dear friend Julia Alexander’s memorial service in Baltimore in late May, I visited the Walters Art Museum, which she directed for eleven years, and the Baltimore Museum of Art. I hadn’t been to the BMA in a few years but wrote about its full-blown embrace of woke ideology around 2020 and its subsequent scandals as it tried to use money from the sale of art in its collection to pay for its insane DEI program. An uprising among donors nixed the art-for-cash scam; Chris Bedford, the director at the time, fled to the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco, now on life support; and sneaky trustees quit, whether ashamed or not, I don’t know. I always enjoy visiting the BMA, which has very good European Old Masters, superb mosaics from Antioch, and hundreds of works by Matisse collected by two Baltimore sisters. Its American art is good, too, with galleries redone in 2022 to display paintings, ...

The High Museum of Art in Atlanta hosts the South African’s first major museum exhibition in the United States, “Ezrom Legae: Beasts,” through November 16, 2025. "Ezrom Legae: Beasts" installation view at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. Mike Jensen They’re animals. They’re people. Stand-ins. Code. Black artists working under apartheid in South African didn’t have the luxury of being literal. Artists living under or observing extreme cruelty have always used animals to represent people. Francisco Goya in Spain in the late 18th century. Picasso with the bombing of Guernica. Ezrom Legae (1938–1999). Not even the nerdiest of art nerds will know that name. The High Museum of Art in Atlanta hopes to change that, staging the South African’s first major museum exhibition in the United States, “Ezrom Legae: Beasts” through November 16, 2025. After apartheid was established in 1948, many artists in South Africa contended with its corresponding oppression and bodily violence by pr...

A piece of the Lucknow Residency, besieged by Indian sepoys during the revolt of 1857, reflects how colonialism haunts modern-day Britain. Rudyard Kipling’s Kim – that iconic novel of the Raj – first appeared as a serial in McClure’s Magazine in December 1900, a month before the death of Queen Victoria. At this point, the British Empire was arguably at its strongest. The event that extended Victoria’s reign to India was the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857, now referred to as the Indian Uprising or the Great Rebellion. After this, British rule in India passed from the East India Company to the British Crown. Most references to the events of 1857-58 in Kim come from an old Indian villager, “who had served the [British] government in the days of the Mutiny as a native officer…” He goes on to describe his loyal service for the Company army: “Nine wounds I bear; a medal and four clasps and the medal of an Order, for my captains, who are now generals, remembered me when the Kaisar-i-Hind had accompl...

The Later: Contemporary Art From Pakistan and the Postcolonial Space The Furqan Ahmed Collection ISBN: 078-969-712-151-9 177pp. The Later is an impressive historical and cultural investigation of contemporary art in Pakistan. Populated with images of artworks in eight essays and an artist in conversation, the volume analyses the impact on art of the events of the last four centuries of the Subcontinent’s complex sociological, geopolitical, economic, technological and visual dis/placement. The Preface by Furqaan Ahmed outlines the four timelines — ‘The Before’ and ‘The Disruption’ pertain to the era prior to the arrival of the East India Company and the subsequent establishment of the British Empire, whilst ‘The After’ and ‘The Later’ focus on the after-effects and the construction of the visual vocabulary post-1947. Often, the text and images disclose an intertwining of the past and present, the sacred and secular. The book comprises two halves, the first traverses the interacti...

Now 17 years after her death, Beryl Cook's pictures of pub life are being appreciated by a younger audience and a new exhibition celebrating the artist will give her the acclaim she deserves Her saucy postcard-style portraits of ordinary folk having a laugh made Beryl Cook a hit with the British public. A seaside landlady who took up painting in her 30s, the artist was a “glamorous granny who loved a gin and tonic and a Silk Cut ciggie” and captured her larger than life characters, basking in what she called “the joy in life”. Whether they were necking a pint down the pub, winning at bingo, munching on a sausage sandwich, or mincing off to a hen party in a leopard print miniskirt – she painted a slice of British life, like a jolly modern Hogarth. It took a sniffy art establishment a long time to admit that Beryl’s earthy style was far more nuanced than they ever gave her credit for. But now, 17 years after her death, a landmark new exhibition at The Box in Plymouth will celebrat...

Biography of Vanessa May Vanessa Mae is a world-famous British violinist who has entered the Guinness Book of Records more than once. Her original adaptations of classical works are often criticized, but more often they ... Read more The post Vanessa May Net Worth appeared first on Turkish Weekly. Biography of Vanessa May Vanessa Mae is a world-famous British violinist who has entered the Guinness Book of Records more than once. Her original adaptations of classical works are often criticized, but more often they delight and surprise fans. Recently, she has presented her own compositions to the public and performs as a singer. Seriously skiing. Astronomers immortalized her name by naming asteroid 10313 “Vanessa-Mae”. Childhood and youth: Singapore – London When in the fall of 1978 in Singapore, a daughter was born in the family of a Chinese woman, Pamela Tan, and a Thai, Varaprong Vanakorn, she was named Vanessa. As soon as the baby began to speak, it turned out that she had an ...