- The Beverly Arts
- May 31
Updated: Jun 20
Robert Lobel, artist Clara Lobel, Chloe Kelly, Professor Lingyun Xiang, Takeyoshi Omori, Bertha Doss, actress Grace Field, Bailli/president Laurent Khaiat, Masa Baba, Deborah Castine MD, and TV host Joey Zhou, founder of the Los Angeles Beverly Arts (LABA)
Los Angeles, California, USA. 23rd May, 2026. Members of the Beverly Hills Chapter of the Chaîne des Rôtisseurs, the world’s oldest and most prestigious international gastronomic society, gathered for a dinner meeting at Kendall’s Brasserie in downtown Los Angeles. The Beverly Hills Chapter is one of many chapters worldwide affiliated with the Chaîne des Rôtisseurs, an international organization dedicated to fostering the appreciation of fine cuisine and culinary culture. The evening brought together food enthusiasts, culinary professionals, and supporters of fine dining for a celebration of French-inspired cuisine, wine, and friendship.
Actress/singer Grace Field, TV host Joey Zhou, founder of the Los Angeles Beverly Arts (LABA), and Deborah Castine MD present to the audience
Chilled Spring Pea Soup with Creme Fraiche, walnuts, mint, and herbs
Located adjacent to the Music Center, Kendall’s Brasserie provided an elegant setting for the event, which featured a specially curated multi-course menu showcasing classic French culinary traditions paired with carefully selected wines. Guests enjoyed taking photos on the red carpet, while enjoying appetizers and champagne, supporting the organization’s ongoing mission to preserve and promote excellence in food, wine, and hospitality.
A Sancerre wine is served, Les Grands Monts, Isabelle Garrault 2024, from France
Loup De Mer (European Sea Bass) with tomatoes, artichoke hearts, pea trendrils, and preserved lemon nage
During the evening, members and guests had the opportunity to network and share their passion for food and wine while experiencing the culinary offerings of Kendall’s Brasserie. The event highlighted the important role that restaurants, chefs, sommeliers, and hospitality professionals play in preserving culinary traditions and creating memorable dining experiences.
Opera singer/vocalist Jinli Qu performed for the guests
In addition to celebrating fine dining, the gathering reflected the organization’s emphasis on friendship, cultural exchange, and appreciation for the culinary arts. Attendees enjoyed the opportunity to connect with fellow members and guests in an atmosphere that combined tradition, elegance, and a shared love of exceptional food and wine.
La Chaine des Rôtisseurs, Beverly Hills Chapter Board members Joey Zhou, Chloe Kelly, Bailli/president Laurent Khaiat, Deborah Castine MD, and Akemi Khaiat
The dinner meeting continued the Beverly Hills Chapter’s tradition of hosting events that showcase outstanding restaurants and culinary talent throughout Southern California, providing members with opportunities to experience diverse cuisines while supporting excellence within the hospitality industry.
About La Chaîne des Rôtisseurs
La Chaîne des Rôtisseurs is the oldest international gastronomic society dedicated to the promotion of fine dining and the culinary arts. Founded in Paris in 1950 and inspired by the historic French guild established in 1248, the organization brings together professional and amateur members who share a passion for cuisine, wine, and hospitality. Today, the Chaîne has chapters around the world and is committed to fostering culinary excellence, education, and international fellowship through dining events, competitions, and cultural programs.
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- The Beverly Arts
- May 30
Updated: Jun 20
By Michael Janzen
Painting by Clara Lobel
Clara Lobel is a multi-talented individual which is revealed in her many achievements; award winning model of great elegance, representative agent for exquisite real estate properties, performer of traditional musical instruments, original romantic painting and thoughtful generous philanthropy. In her notable striving towards perfection, her elegant presence is in all of her exceptional accomplishments and recognized contributions. In all that she does, Clara radiates beauty, grace, sophistication, refinement, class and dignity. Her timeless physical poise is of her own signature style. Her manners and demeanor are of kindness, warmth and respect. Clara is an exemplary model, or better said, representative of creative abilities that recognize and project beauty into our world. Clara Lobel is a highly celebrated and public personality that is born out of eastern and western cultures and an inner personal awareness, that is inclusive and unifies.
In my opinion, Clara’s paintings created in the privacy of her studio most fully express, all that she is in one medium, that of oil painting itself. In her painting activities, out of sight from the public, she is totally free to independently entertain and inform her vision and meaning of elegance as she alone sees it.
Clara Lobel
We are no longer made aware of her adherence to the lenses of cameras. Her paintings invite us to see through personal lenses which are her eyes of experience, dreams, visions and her soul showing us a world where only beauty, harmony and peace may reign and exist. Her artworks are not fantasies, they are profoundly romantic but firmly and knowingly based on positive life experiences and her boundless love that brings everything and others together in harmony, beauty and absolute unity. Her paintings are idyllic that are clearly imagined, felt and expressed that become very convincing possibilities towards actualizations into outer reality. The import of her paintings lays way to projecting a beautiful life into the harsh world many others call reality.
Refined Clara refuses to surrender to overt ugliness, crudity, neglect, ineptness, plainness, unimportance, lowliness, barbarism, unstylish, tacky, garishness, discord, sloppiness and the unrefined. These are states in life we are meant to grow out of and not indulge or be imprisoned into. Her vivid, luminous and uplifting paintings endeavor to free our hearts and hopefully our minds and actions. Clara’s inner romantic realities are born out of a vision that comes from her inner eye, utilizing these harmonious elements that are defined by her radiant light, sumptuous colour, embracing atmospheres, positive bright moods, inviting spaces and loving human relationships to be desired. She successfully invites us into her inspired utopia in the hopes of having the viewer step into and be able to participate in it. Ultimately, the artist is wishing to inspire others to create something of this sacred, heavenly world on earth in their own lives that then might be able to spread out into the outer world of reality.
With brush in hand and facing a canvas, Clara absolutely and single-handedly becomes her own master of Elegant Romantic Dreamscapes. The consummate and sincere artist that she is, plus being a celebrated world model and authority of elegance, she can now project romantic elegance into both female and male characters, graceful interactive body language, stylish costumes, imagined ideal settings, jewel like color, illuminating light, purposely selected accessories and visually alluring stories that are clear in meaning. Clara, as a painter, is completely set free when composing her Beautiful Visionary Worlds of Elegance that she brings life to. The painter skillfully communicates by casting her spells of elegance in her richly painted original artworks which gently and lovingly attract her followers that she effortlessly charms. In short, Clara Lobel’s exquisite paintings contribute and reinvigorate much needed romanticism in contemporary life and art.
I congratulate the all encompassing beautiful Clara and thank her for her unique and beautiful visions of living with and by way of elegance as she consistently does uninterruptedly in
both her personal and professional life of expressive and high standing achievements.
Yours in admiration,
Michael Janzen
About Clara Lobel
Clara Lobel is a woman whose life reflects a journey shaped by elegance, discipline, and artistic passion. Born into a scholarly family in China and raised in Hong Kong, her early life was grounded in education, culture, and the arts. She built her professional career in business, focusing on international trade and real estate investment. Through determination and hard work, Clara achieved great success and received numerous awards and honors recognizing her accomplishments. Today, Clara's life is a symphony of self-discipline and creativity. Her weekly routine includes oil painting, yoga, Pilates, jazz dance, and golf — activities that nurture both physical well-being and creative inspiration. She has developed a deep appreciation for golf and continues to pursue oil painting through immersive studio practice, with each painting often requiring more than 100 hours of focus and dedication. For Clara, painting is not only a form of artistic expression, but the fulfillment of a lifelong dream. She continues to receive awards for her accomplishments, most recently she was honored with the 2026 Los Angeles Beverly Arts (LABA) Icon Award.
About Michael Janzen
Michael Janzen is a Canadian international artist whose work focuses on cultural dialogue and collaboration. His artwork has been exhibited in Canada, Brazil, France and China. Known for his live painting performances, Janzen has combined visual art with music, dance and film since 2000. He has been invited to perform at institutions including the Varley Art Gallery, and one of his works was presented to Pope John Paul II. In 2020, the Huronia Museum in Midland, Ontario, acquired one of Janzen’s paintings, which was exhibited alongside works by members of the Group of Seven and their contemporaries. The Group of Seven was a group of Canadian landscape painters founded in 1920 who are renowned for their vibrant and emotive depictions of the Canadian wilderness using bold colors and expressive brushwork. They began an art movement which played a pivotal role in shaping Canadian artistic expression, influencing subsequent generations of artists. He has received many awards including LABA’s MIMV (Most Influential and Most Valuable) Artist for 2022–2024, 2026 LABA Icon Award, LABA Blue Chip Artist, and was most recently appointed Honorary Art Consultant by MDSUN Skin Care.
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- The Beverly Arts
- May 28
Updated: Jun 20
Yoko Ono holding Glass Hammer, 1967, in Yoko Ono at Lisson: Half-A-Wind Show, Lisson Gallery, London, 1967. © Yoko Ono. Photo by and © Clay Perry. Visitors explore Yoko Ono’s Add Colour (Refugee Boat) (1960/2016) installed in Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind, Tate Modern, London, 2024. © Yoko Ono. Photo © Oliver Cowling, courtesy of Tate.
Los Angeles, California, USA. 23rd May 2026. The Broad Museum celebrated the opening of Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind, an exhibition showcasing the legacy of artist Yoko Ono, an art career which spanned over seven decades. It is the artist’s first solo museum exhibition in Southern California, and was organized in collaboration with Tate Modern, in London, England. Presented at The Broad in downtown Los Angeles, the exhibition features a wide-ranging selection of Ono’s conceptual installations, interactive works, films, photographs, music, and archival materials. Members of the Los Angeles Beverly Arts (LABA) attended the opening exhibition, including TV host Joey Zhou, founder of the Los Angeles Beverly Arts (LABA), Professor Lingyun Xiang, and Natalie Chen, LABA Coordinator.
TV host Joey Zhou, founder of the Los Angeles Beverly Arts (LABA) hangs a wish on the Wish Tree at The Broad Museum
The exhibition drew visitors from the local and international art community, as well as those who came to view Ono’s work and explore her contributions to contemporary art, music, performance, and peace activism. The Broad’s olive trees on East West Bank Plaza side of the building were turned into "Wish Trees" for Los Angeles, an installation that was first realized in 1996 at Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, and invited visitors to tie their own wishes to the tree branches in an expression of hope for Los Angeles. The exhibition will run from May 23rd to October 11, 2026.
TV host Joey Zhou, founder of the Los Angeles Beverly Arts (LABA) and artist Mimi Kirk
Professor Lingyun Xiang draws an image on the floor at the Yoko Ono exhibition
Ono’s work challenges traditional boundaries between artist and audience while emphasizing themes of imagination, participation, healing, peace, and collective human experience. Visitors attending the exhibition explored and photographed the immersive installations and participatory artworks that have become synonymous with Ono’s artistic vision. Many of her works invite visitors to actively engage with the works, reflecting Ono’s long-standing belief that art can serve as a catalyst for communication, reflection, and social connection. Attendees were seen participating in the installations, writing on the walls, hammering nails, watching films, revisiting some of her most iconic conceptual works while experiencing Ono’s impact on contemporary culture.
TV host Joey Zhou, founder of the Los Angeles Beverly Arts (LABA) and Jaimie Beebe
Natalie Chen, LABA Coordinator with a poster and a water bottle at Yoko Ono's exhibition
Ono was an accomplished and recognized artist well before her marriage to John Lennon of the Beatles thrust her into the spotlight, and she was an early practitioner of what we now call performance art. The exhibition also highlights Ono’s role within the Fluxus movement of the 1960s and her collaborations across music, visual art, film, and performance. In addition to her artistic achievements, the exhibition examines her advocacy for peace, human rights, and global activism, especially during the time she was married to John Lennon. The artworks Acorn Event (1968) and Bed Peace (1969), anti-war works of activism Ono and Lennon worked on together are on display.
TV host Joey Zhou, founder of the Los Angeles Beverly Arts (LABA) participates by hammering a nail into the installation artwork
Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind continues The Broad’s commitment to presenting internationally significant exhibitions that examine influential voices in modern and contemporary art.
About the Broad
The Broad was founded by philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad on Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles. The Broad makes its collection of contemporary art from the 1950s to the present accessible to the widest possible audience by presenting exhibitions and operating a lending program to art museums and galleries worldwide. By actively building a dynamic collection that features in-depth representations of influential contemporary artists and by advancing education and engagement through exhibitions and diverse public programming, the museum enriches, provokes, inspires, and fosters appreciation of art of our time.
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