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Yahoo
27-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Susanne Bartsch Brings new Exhibition 'Transformation!' to Switzerland
A tribute to creativity, fashion, queerness and self-expression opens in Zurich during Pride Month Susanne Bartsch at the Chelsea Hotel. She is wearing a look by The Blonds. Susanne Bartsch at the launch of Bartschland, 2024. She is wearing a look by Mathu & Zaldy from the early 1990s. New York, May 27, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- International style icon and legendary nightlife figure Susanne Bartsch returns to her roots this summer with 'Susanne Bartsch – Transformation!', a vibrant exhibition opening June 20, 2025, at the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, the leading Swiss design museum. Launching during Zurich Pride Festival, the exhibition spotlights Bartsch's trailblazing influence on fashion, performance, and LGBTQ+ culture. About the exhibition: a night out in six actsThe exhibition 'Transformation!' at the leading Swiss design museum offers an immersive celebration of Susanne Bartsch's life, artistry, and influence, structured like a night out in six evocative chapters: 'Welcome!', 'Hair and Make-up', 'Getting Ready', 'Queuing', 'The Club' and 'Lounge'. Unveiling a full-scale 'club' and showcasing over 35 of Bartsch's most iconic outfits, each section captures the creative chaos and vibrant community of Bartschland. 'This exhibition is not just about clothes—it's about celebrating individuality, creativity, and community. It's such an honor and I'm thrilled to bring my world back to Switzerland, where my journey began' says Susanne Bartsch. Visitors are greeted by Bartsch herself in a life-sized welcome video, then guided through curated installations that highlight her collaborators, from makeup artists and costume designers to underground style icons. Archival videos, fashion ephemera, and rare photography reflect her enduring role as a cultural connector and LGBTQ+ advocate. The exhibition concludes with a reflective lounge showcasing footage of Susanne Bartsch's most iconic moments, including the Love Ball, her tributes to drag and ballroom culture, a catalog of around 120 signature looks presented by the Museum at FIT, and more Susanne Bartsch: Swiss beginnings to global fameBorn in Switzerland, Bartsch left at 17 for London's punk and New Romantic scenes, later rising to prominence in 1980s New York. Her parties became epicenters of creativity and community, especially for queer artists and performers. With her legendary Love Ball in 1989, Bartsch mobilized the fashion world to support HIV/AIDS awareness, a cause she continues to champion today. Swiss Textile Heritage: St. Gallen, from embroidery to the red carpetSusanne Bartsch's avant-garde fashion celebrates Switzerland's legacy of textile innovation, especially the craftsmanship of St. Gallen, a city renowned for its exquisite embroidery since the 19th century. Bartsch has influenced generations of trailblazing artists and fashion legends, including Thierry Mugler or Lady Gaga, who wore a gown made with St. Gallen embroidery by Nicolas Jebran at the 2019 Met Gala. The city's artisans have long dressed royalty and celebrities alike, most notably, Michelle Obama wore a custom Isabel Toledo ensemble featuring St. Gallen lace at her husband's 2009 presidential inauguration. Zürich Pride FestivalThe exhibition opens on the same day as the Zurich Pride Festival (June 20–21, 2025) the biggest pride celebration in Switzerland. Instagram Live with Susanne Bartsch - win a trip to Switzerland!On June 5 at 12 PM EST, Susanne Bartsch and Out Magazine Editor-in-Chief Daniel Reynolds discuss the exhibition Transformation! and raffle a trip to Switzerland on Out's Instagram live. Susanne Bartsch – Transformation!June 20 – December 7, 2025Opening hours: Tue–Sun 10 am–5 pm, Thu until 8 pmMuseum für Gestaltung Zürich, Ausstellungsstrasse 60Media & partner preview: June 19, 2025, 11 amExclusive Opening: Thursday, June 19, 2025, 7 pmCurated by Meret Ernst with co-curators Susanne Bartsch and Waleed KhairzadaMore Info: Press Materials & ImagesDownload images hereAccess press material here About Museum für Gestaltung Zürich The Museum für Gestaltung Zürich is the leading Swiss museum for design and visual communication. Its internationally significant collection comprises over half a million objects. Through its three Zurich locations, traveling exhibitions, and extensive digital offerings including with over 125,000 works, the museum makes design accessible to a global audience and pioneers digital curation. Press Contact:Divine Bonga, Head of Communications North AmericaSwitzerland TourismPhone: +1 212 757 5944Email: materials available at: About Switzerland TourismSwitzerland Tourism (ST) is the national marketing and promotion organization for Switzerland as a holiday, travel, and convention destination. With a presence in 23 global markets and headquartered in Zurich, ST collaborates closely with the Swiss tourism industry to implement demand-driven campaigns that showcase the country's rich diversity from majestic mountains and pristine nature to vibrant cities and cultural experiences. Funded through a combination of public and private resources, ST promotes sustainable tourism development and aims to inspire travelers year-round with authentic and memorable Swiss experiences. Attachments Susanne Bartsch at the Chelsea Hotel. She is wearing a look by The Blonds. Susanne Bartsch at the launch of Bartschland, 2024. She is wearing a look by Mathu & Zaldy from the early 1990s. CONTACT: Divine Bonga Switzerland Tourism 212-757-5944
CBC
27-04-2025
- CBC
2 men guilty in murder of Toronto youth worker Thane Murray
Two men have been found guilty of murdering a Regent Park youth worker and attempting to murder two of his friends in a 2021 shooting, following a decision in a Toronto court Saturday night. Noah Anderson, 23, and Junior Jahmal Harvey, 23, were among four masked men who opened fire downtown in a parking lot in Regent Park on Sept. 18, 2021, killing 27-year-old Thane Murray and injuring two of his friends, a jury found. The group fired 59 bullets from their handguns that night. Murray was hit 14 times, including in the head, and died at the scene. His two childhood friends both survived the shooting, but one was in a coma for weeks. On Saturday, after a day and a half of deliberation, the jury found both Anderson and Harvey guilty of first-degree murder and two counts of attempted murder. They will receive automatic life sentences with no chance of parole for 25 years. Determining the identity of the shooters was key during the trial. The crown had built a circumstantial case based on surveillance video tracking Anderson, Harvey and the two others shooters driving to and from Regent Park in a Nissan Altima rented under Anderson's name. Video shown to the jury captured the men walking to the car parked on nearby McGill Street after leaving the Chelsea Hotel, where Anderson had rented a room, shortly before the shooting. Footage also captured the men returning in the same car and parking on the same street 30 minutes after the shooting and reentering the hotel. Footage also showed that the men changed clothes and shoes before and after the murder. The Crown argued the motive for the attack was a neighbourhood rivalry. The Crown had played a rap song for the jury, found on Anderson's phone and recorded 10 days after the shooting, in which they argued lyrics credited to Anderson and Harvey described the murder. In the song, titled "Peppered," the rappers call themselves the "RP killas" — RP referring to Regent Park — and rap about a head shot that "sent that boy straight to Jesus." Anderson and Harvey were both 20 at the time of the shooting.
New York Times
10-04-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
An Expedition, for Art and Nature
They looked like peppercorns ground into the sky and then like ribbons of black silk or a stain spreading overhead. Each spring, for close to a million years, hundreds of thousands of sandhill cranes converge on the Platte River Valley in central Nebraska. For roughly a month, the birds rest and refuel on their annual path from the southern United States and Mexico, where they winter, to the Arctic regions of Canada, Alaska and Siberia, where they breed. Jane Goodall, who tries to make the trip every year to witness the phenomenon, has called it 'without a doubt one of the most spectacular events in the natural world.' One recent weekend, Sheila Berger, a 65-year-old artist and former fashion model whose own migratory path took her from St. Louis to New York City, assembled a flock of far-flung friends to witness the extravaganza alongside her. 'This viewing rivals any safari you would have in Africa,' said Ms. Berger, whose hat was festooned with a golden frond of grain. 'I've seen the gorillas in Rwanda, the elephants in Kenya, the lions and wildebeest in Tanzania. This is as good.' Some spectators, like Ms. Berger's husband, the lawyer-turned-writer Michael Rips, with whom she has lived in the Chelsea Hotel since 1994, were originally from Nebraska themselves but had long ago flown the coop. The congregation included the Grammy-winning singer Rosanne Cash; the married authors Kurt Andersen and Anne Kreamer; Thomas and Alice Tisch, a MoMA trustee; and the artist and garden designer Dana Westring and his partner, Trevor Potter, the founding director of the Campaign Legal Center. Martha Stewart had been invited along as well, but business obligations forced her to bow out of the festivities last minute. She was disappointed. 'QVC can wait, but the cranes can't,' she lamented later. 'But that's life.' As a consolation, Ms. Stewart made immediate plans to see next year's migration. 'The 'do not disturb' is already on my calendar,' she said. The prairie party, such as it was, began in Omaha, with a tour of the Joslyn Art Museum and a visit to the studio of the sculptor Jun Kaneko, whose large-scale ceramics take up to a month to fire in custom-built kilns. The next day, everyone drove the two and a half hours due west to the small city of Kearney, where Ms. Berger was to accessorize a public sculpture she had installed last spring at the Yanney Heritage Park, an 80-acre corn-field-turned-public-park established in 1998 by Michael Yanney, a local investment banker. When Mr. Yanney learned of Ms. Berger's work a few years ago — she had recently installed a massive, mirrored bird sculpture on Governors Island in New York City — he commissioned her to make a meadowlark, Nebraska's state bird, for the park. 'She sent me a drawing,' Mr. Yanney recalled. 'I just said: 'How big are you going make it? Because whatever size you see it as, it isn't going be big enough. Make it big!' And she did, and it's simply gorgeous.' Designed in New York City, fabricated in stainless steel in China and colored with pigments sometimes used in highly specialized car finishes, Ms. Berger's meadowlark, which is nearly eight feet tall, was installed during last year's crane migration. It was then that Ms. Berger realized her rendition of the state bird should somehow interact with the migrating cranes. She liked how the cranes were, as she put it, 'ugly and beautiful at the same time,' and how 'they all had this red heart right in the center of their faces.' Inspired, she fashioned a small mask, like something a superhero might wear, also in stainless steel, and proposed that each year, the meadow lark could wear it for the length of the migration — the local bird and the visiting becoming one, at least for a few weeks. And so on a gray Sunday, approximately 60 people gathered at Yanney Heritage Park. Ms. Berger was introduced by Mayor Jonathan Nikkila of Kearney inside the park's pavilion, which was hung with elaborate colorful chandeliers by the glass artist Dale Chihuly. 'I'm grateful to be in a community that appreciates progress but believes that the human experience isn't complete just with food, shelter and clothing,' Mr. Nikkila said. 'So here today, we focus on nature and art. Beauty that comes from the mind and hands of humans, and beauty that we receive from the hand of God.' Ms. Berger, dressed in a long shearling coat, Prada boots and Robert Downey Jr.-esque blue tinted sunglasses, thanked the mayor, who had planned on joining the group that evening to watch the cranes but had instead been recruited to take prom pictures with his daughter, a high school student. Ms. Berger described her sculpture as playful and childlike, and quoted the Nebraska poet Ted Kooser, who had written about 'Driving along / with your hand out squeezing the air, / a meadowlark waiting on every post.' Ms. Berger smiled. 'What,' she asked, 'is this meadowlark waiting for?' She smiled again. 'This meadowlark is waiting for today! To wear its mask and to welcome not only the cranes, but you, too.' She thanked everyone for coming and for joining her in 'this crazy thing of putting a mask on a bird!' Her 26-year-old daughter, Nicolaia Rips, a memoirist and editor at ID magazine, stood up to embrace her. Outside, a layered score of howling wind and distant I-80 traffic was occasionally pierced by the cry of a crane. The crowd beamed on as Ms. Berger, with the help of Eric Hellriegel, the director of parks for the City of Kearney, affixed the mask to the sculpture with an Allen wrench. She stepped back and admired her work. 'I'm not religious but I like ritual,' Ms. Berger explained. 'And there's a Passover prayer you say at the beginning of the meal: 'Let all who are hungry come and eat.'' The meadowlarks, she continued, 'are always here, but they're inviting the cranes in to feast. They're always welcome.' Mr. Rips, who grew up in Omaha, described a sort of constitutional modesty as an endemic Nebraska trait and attributed it to the state's pioneer history, wherein survival depended upon sympathy and one's neighbors could not be judged 'randomly and capriciously.' People from Nebraska, he went on, 'are almost incapable of speaking in the language of self-praise.' He said his wife was this way as well, and that it was not unrelated to her project, which, as he put it, 'was about turning a modest bird into something heroic.' Ms. Stewart, an old friend of Mr. Rips and Ms. Berger's who has attended almost all of Ms. Berger's public art installations, said she admired the artist's commitment to turning small birds into monuments. 'No bird is 'every day'!' she explained. 'It's so interesting that she can fabricate something as tender as a bird in such a large size and so beautifully finished — and I know what it takes to make stainless steel look like that.' After the sculpture park ceremony, as dusk fell, the group of 16 friends convened at the Iain Nicolson Audubon Center at Rowe Sanctuary, which had celebrated its 50th anniversary the day before. Established in 1974 with the purchase of 782 acres funded by a New Jersey schoolteacher, Rowe is now almost seven times its original size and includes a river channel, meadows and agricultural land. After a brief informational video and the distribution of binoculars, everyone set off single file for the bird blind. With its minimal lines and silvered wood exterior, the structure resembled a Marcel Breuer building by way of Fire Island. By 7:35 p.m., the sky, like the water, was a dark gray. A few dark cranes could be seen way up high. The strange, distant noises of coyotes could be heard echoing. 'There's often a little lull around now when the guests start to question why they're here,' said Lizzy Gilbert, the director of development at the National Audubon Society. 'We all place bets about when the first bird is going to land. I think it's going to be 8:02.' The group had been instructed to dress warmly (and darkly). Swaddled in down jackets, they huddled in small clusters, unwitting participants in the world's most subtle costume party. 'Crane on the ground!' whispered Dudley Fiskopp, a mustachioed science-teacher-turned-guide dressed in full camouflage. It was 7:42. By 8 p.m., cranes were accruing from all directions, darkening the sky like ink blots, each one landing in the shallow water in what looked like slow-motion. The low light made the scene resemble a black-and-white photograph. The previous week, 736,000 cranes had been counted — the highest ever recorded. This evening, it felt like there must have been at least as many. 'It's so meditative,' whispered Rosanne Cash, whom Berger had met over 20 years ago through their mutual friend, the 'M.A.S.H.' star Mary Kay Place. 'It looks like an etching.' Ms. Cash's breath was visible in the dark. 'If somebody else had said to me, 'Hey, come to Nebraska to see some cranes — it's pretty hard to get to and it's going to be freezing cold,' I'd say, 'Nah.' But because it was Sheila, I didn't think twice, and then of course it turns out to be so much better than you ever dreamed of.'
Yahoo
27-03-2025
- Yahoo
Jury watches surveillance videos at trial of 2 men accused of killing Regent Park youth worker
A jury in a Toronto courtroom watched surveillance videos on Wednesday at the trial of two men charged with first-degree murder of a Regent Park youth worker. The Crown alleges Noah Anderson, 23, and Junior Jahmal Harvey, 23, were among four masked men who fired dozens of bullets in Regent Park on the evening of Sept. 18, 2021, killing Thane Murray, 27, and injuring his two friends. Murray, of Toronto, was shot several times in the area of Oak and Sumach streets. He died at the scene. His two friends also suffered gunshot wounds. An advocate for Regent Park's youth, Murray worked at several recreational facilities in Toronto and was an employee of the Regent Park Community Centre. The videos that were shown to the jury focus on a sedan considered a key part of the evidence in the case being heard at the Superior Court of Justice. The Crown has been reviewing surveillance videos to show how it believes the four alleged shooters travelled to Regent Park on the day of the shooting. The jury has spent days watching videos of a sedan that the Crown believes the four men used to carry out the murder. Toronto police vehicles are shown here Oak Street and Sumach Street on the evening of Sept. 18, 2021. (Jeremy Cohn/CBC News) One video shows the sedan of interest on a side street near the Chelsea Hotel on Gerrard Street W. Video shows four masked men leaving the hotel. The Crown alleges the four walked to the sedan and drove it to Regent Park to carry out the shooting. The Crown used video to track the vehicle returning to the same street near the hotel half a hour later. Video also captured masked men walking back into the Chelsea hotel. On Wednesday afternoon, the Crown presented images of the alleged shooters in the hotel wearing masks after the shooting. The Crown told the jury that Anderson, before the murder, had rented a 2012 beige Nissan Altima sedan and a room at the Chelsea Hotel. Both were rented for a week. According to an agreed statement of facts, Anderson rented the sedan on Sept. 15, 2021, parked it outside the hotel on Sept. 17 and conducted a transaction at the front desk of the hotel on Sept. 20 for $304.04. The Crown alleges the Nissan he rented closely resembles the sedan captured on video, but the defence is challenging that argument. Toronto police officers are shown here searching the crime scene. According to an agreed statement of facts, forensic identification officers found 59 shell casing at the homicide scene on Sept. 18 and 19, 2021. (Jeremy Cohn/CBC News) According to the agreed statement of facts, Toronto police forensic identification officers found 59 shell casing at the homicide scene on Sept. 18 and 19. A year later, on Sept. 12, 2022, during an unrelated drug investigation, police recovered a firearm from a residence and it was determined to be a Glock 48. The firearm was sent to the Centre of Forensic Sciences for more testing. On Oct. 26, 2022, a firearm expert determined at least one of the shell casings found from the homicide scene was fired by the Glock 48 seized by police during the drug investigation.
CBC
27-03-2025
- CBC
Jury watches surveillance videos at trial of 2 men accused of killing Regent Park youth worker
A jury in a Toronto courtroom watched surveillance videos on Wednesday at the trial of two men charged with first-degree murder of a Regent Park youth worker. The Crown alleges Noah Anderson, 23, and Junior Jahmal Harvey, 23, were among four masked men who fired dozens of bullets in Regent Park on the evening of Sept. 18, 2021, killing Thane Murray, 27, and injuring his two friends. Murray, of Toronto, was shot several times in the area of Oak and Sumach streets. He died at the scene. His two friends also suffered gunshot wounds. An advocate for Regent Park's youth, Murray worked at several recreational facilities in Toronto and was an employee of the Regent Park Community Centre. The videos that were shown to the jury focus on a sedan considered a key part of the evidence in the case being heard at the Superior Court of Justice. The Crown has been reviewing surveillance videos to show how it believes the four alleged shooters travelled to Regent Park on the day of the shooting. The jury has spent days watching videos of a sedan that the Crown believes the four men used to carry out the murder. One video shows the sedan of interest on a side street near the Chelsea Hotel on Gerrard Street W. Video shows four masked men leaving the hotel. The Crown alleges the four walked to the sedan and drove it to Regent Park to carry out the shooting. The Crown used video to track the vehicle returning to the same street near the hotel half a hour later. Video also captured masked men walking back into the Chelsea hotel. On Wednesday afternoon, the Crown presented images of the alleged shooters in the hotel wearing masks after the shooting. The Crown told the jury that Anderson, before the murder, had rented a 2012 beige Nissan Altima sedan and a room at the Chelsea Hotel. Both were rented for a week. According to an agreed statement of facts, Anderson rented the sedan on Sept. 15, 2021, parked it outside the hotel on Sept. 17 and conducted a transaction at the front desk of the hotel on Sept. 20 for $304.04. The Crown alleges the Nissan he rented closely resembles the sedan captured on video, but the defence is challenging that argument. According to the agreed statement of facts, Toronto police forensic identification officers found 59 shell casing at the homicide scene on Sept. 18 and 19. A year later, on Sept. 12, 2022, during an unrelated drug investigation, police recovered a firearm from a residence and it was determined to be a Glock 48. The firearm was sent to the Centre of Forensic Sciences for more testing. On Oct. 26, 2022, a firearm expert determined at least one of the shell casings found from the homicide scene was fired by the Glock 48 seized by police during the drug investigation.
