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Time of India
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Dwyane Wade's daughter Zaya Wade's modest birthday became a bold stand for something bigger
On the surface, it looked like a glamorous 18th birthday bash, bright lights, bold fashion, and a buzzing Hollywood venue. But behind the sparkle, Zaya Wade's big night held a powerful secret. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now With just a $20 entry ticket, guests weren't only stepping into a party, they were stepping into a movement. Just days before Pride Month, Zaya, alongside her father Dwyane Wade, revealed something far bigger than a celebration. This wasn't just a birthday. It was a mission disguised in glitter and grace. Zaya Wade and Dwyane Wade turn a birthday into a moment of support The event was called The Venus Ascension Ball. It happened just two days before Pride Month started. The location was NeueHouse in Hollywood, California. Zaya planned the night with a clear goal. Tickets cost $20, and every dollar went to Translatable, a platform she created in 2023 with her dad, Dwyane Wade. Translatable is a digital space that supports LGBTQ+ youth. It offers tools, education, and personal stories. It helps young people feel seen and gives families guidance to support them. Many people came to the ball. Dwyane Wade was there. So was his wife, actress , and their daughter, Kaavia Wade. The family showed love and support the whole night. Big brands also helped out. MAC Cosmetics gave $100,000 to the Trans Wellness Center in Zaya's honor. Other sponsors included H&M, the Utah Jazz, and Folx Health. The Trans Wellness Center, run by Marian Marroquin, was the nonprofit partner. It helps trans people in Los Angeles with health care, housing, and education. The party wasn't just about raising money. It was a true ball. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now Guests dressed up. There were runway contests with $15,000 in cash prizes. Zaya wore a strapless beaded gown, then changed into a short lace dress. Her cake showed The Birth of Venus, a painting about beauty and new life. Zaya later said, 'It was indescribable. Imagine an explosion of love and light wrapped up into one magical night.' Zaya and Dwyane Wade speak from the heart about their bond Zaya's family has supported her from the start. She came out as transgender in 2020, at just 12 years old. At the time, the Wades were living in Florida. But due to new laws against LGBTQ+ rights, they moved to California. Dwyane Wade said, 'The community wasn't here for Zaya, so the community wasn't here for us.' In May 2024, Dwyane Wade shared a podcast where Zaya joined him as a guest. They talked about their close bond. Dwyane said people don't see how much they work together. He also shared that they received the Elevate Prize Catalyst Award. This award supports their mission to help LGBTQ+ youth. Dwyane explained that Translatable gives these young people a safe online place to connect. It also helps families learn how to support them. Zaya's birthday looked like a party. But it was really about hope, love, and a strong mission. Also Read:
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The Independent
13-05-2025
- General
- The Independent
Government bans early work of Botticelli from being exported out of UK
The government has banned a Botticelli painting worth more than £10m from being exported outside the UK. The Virgin and Child Enthroned, painted by the Italian master Sandro Botticelli in the 15th century, is at risk of leaving the country after it was sold by Sotheby's London last December for £9.7m. The UK government has now placed a temporary export bar on the work, which has been valued at £10.2m. The order will prevent it from leaving the UK until 8 August and allow time for a UK gallery or institution to acquire the painting for a British collection. The painting depicts an image of the Virgin Mary sitting on a throne with the child of Christ. It is believed to have been painted in the 1470s, early in Botticelli's career. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport said if saved, the painting would represent a significant addition to the body of work by Botticelli, best known for his painting The Birth of Venus, in UK collections. It added: 'Very few early Botticellis remain in the UK and it would provide a richer and more detailed understanding of his work and the development of Florentine painting in the later fifteenth century.' Christopher Baker, a member of the reviewing committee on the export of works of art and objects of cultural interest, which advises the government, said: 'Dating from the early 1470s, this affecting devotional work demonstrates the sophistication of Botticelli's painting early in his career in Florence. 'Probably intended to inspire private prayer in a domestic setting, it is an image that has a wider resonance as it delicately explores the power of maternal love.' According to Sotheby's, the painting was housed in the Convent of San Giuliano in Florence in the early 19th century and was later taken to a small chapel attached to a group of farmhouses near the village of Vaggio. It was then inherited by the owners of the property, who then sold it to an art dealer in 1903. It was then purchased by Lady Wantage in 1904, and the painting remained in the same family collection until the present day. 'The cult of, or enthusiasm for Botticelli, of which it formed a part, had grown during the Victorian era and the painting arrived in Britain in 1904; it was acquired by Lady Wantage and entered the renowned Lloyd collection,' Mr Baker added. 'Further research on the placement of Botticelli's work in his career and the organisation of his workshop, as well as links with the wider context of Florentine Renaissance art would all be of enormous benefit. 'In view of these intriguing possibilities every effort should be made to try and secure this beguiling painting for a British collection.'
The Guardian
29-01-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Botticelli's Primavera review – lucid study of a Renaissance masterpiece
Here is an interesting, thoughtful and well-reasoned study of a single Botticelli masterwork, the late 15th-century painting that is the perhaps slightly less well known companion piece to The Birth of Venus – though, as this film is at pains to point out, they were not painted as a pair. Primavera is the somewhat left-field first subject in a series of hour-long films in a series called Renaissance Masterpieces issued by Ideas Roadshow; it follows its lengthy, and admirably thorough Raphael: A Portrait, which emerged last year. Like the earlier film, this is the brainchild of Howard Burton, a theoretical physicist and philosopher who is not an art historian by training, but you wouldn't really know it. As with his Raphael magnum opus, Burton's calm and clear voiceover is the meat of the film, resembling a scholarly lecture that, for all its dryness, is lucid and very listenable. Burton foregrounds some nice archive and architectural material which – again like Raphael film – is used to support his analysis; key, it seems, is exactly when and where its existence was recorded in various key property inventories. Visually, Burton's film is not going to win any prizes, though its fairly basic graphics and PowerPoint style presentation get his points across with undeniable clarity. What's rather impressive, however, is the combination of highmindedness and clarity on show here; Burton is a film-maker not afraid of referencing Seneca and Ovid, or getting in visual quotes from the likes of Antonio del Pollaiuolo and Lorenzo Lotto. Well, Burton makes a convincing case for what he calls Primavera's 'highlighting of a golden pastoral past' through its assembly of classical-era literary fragments, with the painting itself acting as a marriage gift to one Semiramide Appiano, wife to powerful Florentine nobleman Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici. And at a crisp hour in running time it's as easily digestible as it is informative. Botticelli's Primavera is on Prime Video from 31 January.
