Art: Kyoko Hazama is a contemporary Japanese artist who specializes in creating sculptures from washi paper, and she brings to her delicate art a wonderful sense of whimsy. From a Quiet Place, an exhibit of her tiny sculptures at the Morikami Museum running through Aug. 31, features many small scenes involving a winsome-looking Japanese girl in the company of extraordinary animals including musk oxen, kangaroos, fennecs and beavers that snack on the girl’s hair. If that’s not enough paper for you, the Cornell Museum at the Delray Beach Center for the Arts is offering From Ordinary to Extraordinary: Paper as Art, featuring 75 works by 16 artists including Alex Queral, who makes portraits out of phone books using a sharp X-Acto knife and an even sharper sense of draftsmanship. That show is on view through Aug. 24. For more information about the Morikami show, call 495-0233; for the Cornell show, call 243-7922.
Film: Not to be confused with the Jon Faveau food truck comedy, Chef — which it inevitably will be — Daniel Cohen’s French film, translated in Franglish as Le Chef, is a droll look at the world of celebrity chefs and their up-and-coming assistants. The ubiquitous Jean Reno plays a star chef, who rules his three-star Michelin restaurant with an iron whisk and also appears on his own TV cooking show. But the movie is stolen from him by leprechaun-like Michaël Youn, as a chef wannabe who knows Reno’s recipes better than he does. Both films have plenty for foodie moviegoers, but — no surprise — the French product is tastier. Opening this weekend at area theaters.
Theater: Palm Beach Dramaworks thinks the summer is for musicals, or at least concert versions of musicals, and director Clive Cholerton makes a convincing case for the concept with his mostly staged version of the rarely revived Zorba!, a John Kander-Fred Ebb show from 1968, based on the Nikos Kazantzakis novel, Zorba the Greek. Broadway veteran William Parry is terrific as the grizzled, philosophical peasant with a penchant for dance, as is Nick Duckart as the American scholar who becomes the recipient of the old man’s wisdom. Through Sunday only. Tickets; $40. Call: (561) 514-4042.
Music: The upcoming Independence Day holiday is always a good time to remember that the wind band was this country’s original orchestral ensemble. Across the pond, Great Britain has a separate tradition of brass bands, many of which were put together by workers at large factories. Combine the two, and you have this Sunday’s concert by the Orchid City Brass Band, the only British-style brass band in South Florida. Michael O’Connor’s fledgling group performs a very American program featuring music from John Williams’ score for Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Morton Gould’s American Salute, and a euphonium soloist doing Arthur Pryor’s Blue Bells of Scotland. If you want to get your barbecue preparations ready for next Friday, this concert might help you start thinking about it. Tickets are $15 for the show at 3 p.m. Sunday in the confines of the First Presbyterian Church in North Palm Beach. For more information, call 247-4078 or visit www.orchidcitybrass.org.