Charlotte (Brontë) Cake and other works of art

You thought there was no product left with no Brontë variety? What about Charlotte Cake? And we're not just assuming the Charlotte from the name to be Charlotte Brontë. We know it is, or at least the Pittsburgh City Paper says so in a review of the appropriately-named restaurant The Library.

For dessert, Charlotte Cake -- after the most famous Brontë sister -- was new to us. Prepared by pastry chef Christen Biddinger, it was an edible geodesic dome comprised of thin slices of raspberry jellyroll mounded over a light, mild chocolate mousse. In recognition of the importance of balance, the mousse contributes more creamy texture than intense chocolate flavor, and a superb conclusion to an enjoyable meal. (Angelique Bamberg and Jason Roth)

We don't know whether Charlotte had such a sweet tooth, though. It sounds as if it would be too sweet for her, if we are to base our judgement on her personality only.

(Don't miss the lunch and dinner menus of The Library on their website. Truly taylor-made!)

Now for some art. The Keighley News echoes - word for word - what the Brontë Parsonage Blog posted a few days ago regarding the forthcoming exhibition by Victoria Brookland at the Brontë Parsonage Museum. Don't forget the exhibition opens this Sunday, July 1.

Art Daily talks about the exhibition Graven Images, which takes place in Birmingham and is devoted to Paula Rego's art, including her famous Jane Eyre lithographs.

Waterhall Gallery of Modern Art, Birmingham, presents Paula Rego: Graven Images, on view through 7 October 2007. Paula Rego has an international reputation as an artist who paints, draws and works in print. This survey exhibition of her prints and drawings represents the first time that her work has been given a major showing in Birmingham. [...]
In the 23 lithographs of Jane Eyre, Rego produces some of her strongest and most simplified images, while creating a world of imaginative readings. The psychological drama of the book is here re-interpreted through distortions of scale, cruel expressions of human relations, and stark contrasts with light and shade. This series will be exhibited alongside the subsequent expansive conté drawing Wide Sargosso [sic] Sea.

The Providence Journal also has an article on art. Art made of paper to be precise, which is on display at the exhibition Pulp Function at the Fullercraft Museum in Brockton, Massachussetts.

One of the show’s largest works, Aimee Lee’s Hunk & Dora, suggests a crumbling stone tower of the sort you might find in a Charlotte Bronte novel. (It turns out to be made from a combination of paper and Tyvek, a paper-like material used in home insulation.) (Bill Van Siclen)

Perhaps seeing it actually helps.

Metroactive reviews the film Evening and Wuthering Heights is mentioned.

YOUNG WRITERS: Drop the name of a classic into a work, as insurance against being found out. In Evening, the names are The Great Gatsby, The Sun Also Rises, Wuthering Heights and three separate refs to A Midsummer Night's Dream, if you count Mendelssohn's "Wedding March." (Richard von Busack)

Categories: Art-Exhibitions, Movies-DVD-TV, Weirdo, Wuthering Heights