"It's a zoo!" someone yelled as the crowd rushed around him at Saturday's Realness: A Night of Dance Art event. Just moments before, host Susanne Bartsch floated by choking the same sentiment, "It's crazy!" she yelled, "but it's a success!" Considering it was barely an hour into the event, it definitely was ...
Abrons Art Center: Kiki with the House of Realness: Party with KUNT and Susanne Bartsch
New York Party Impresario Susanne Bartsch teams up Zurich-based party KUNT, organized by Marc Streit and Lukas Beyeler, for a festival party with a Swiss Made Focus. The event will feature performances from Swiss artists Marie-Caroline Hominal, Daniel Hellmann, Emma Murray, Kiriakos Hadjiioannou, and Alexandra Bachzetsis with additional performances from NYC and US nightlife favorites including JONTE’, Gage of the Boone, VivvyAnne ForeverMORE, and FlucT – Sigrid Lauren & Monica Mirabile.
The Village Voice: The Final Kunst of 2014 with Mykki Blanco
Susanne Bartsch & Dreamhouse put on the final KUNST! party of 2014 on Saturday, December 27 at Verboten (54 N 11th St. in Brooklyn), with former Voice cover subject Mykki Blanco as the special guest host. Music was provided by Lauren Flax, Amber Valentine, Juliana Huxtable, and Objects Permanence. Featured artists were Maria Karlberg, Gage of the Boone, Jacolby Satterwhite, and Slava Mogutin and Brian Kenny of Superm. Photos by Maro Hagopian for the Village Voice.
Party Pick of the Week: Kunst! Hollywood Edition
When Saturday Night Live’s Bill Hader created intrepid nightlife reporter Stefon, he probably attended one of legendary party diva Susanne Bartsch’s flamboyant Big Apple fetes for inspiration ...
Huffington Post: After Dark: Meet Susanne Bartsch, Party Curator And Nightlife Legend
The Huffington Post: You're a legend both within the New York and international nightlife communities. What has your journey to becoming such a prominent cultural fixture entailed?
Susanne Bartsch: I came to New York for a love affair. I came for Valentine's Day and fell in love with New York -- out of love with the guy and into love with the city ...
Next Magazine: Kunst-giving @ Verboten
Susanne Bartsch and Dreamhouse's monthly Brooklyn art rave gave thanks on Friday with music by Primo, Lauren Flax, Juliana Huxtable, and Bearcat.
Document Journal: HalloQueens with MoMA/PS1 and Susanne Bartsch
To be able to photograph the most beautiful people at HalloQueens with Susanne Bartsch and MoMA/PS1 was such a special moment. Looking through my lens and capturing the beauty, I felt like a kid in a candy store. There was so much magic in the air. I imagine it was like the feeling Dorothy must have felt while filming on the set of “The Wizard of Oz”. Much love to MoMA/PS1, Susanne Bartsch, and the entire cast and crew. Click through for a preview of the night.
Huffington Post: Susanne Bartsch Curates MoMA PS1 HalloQueens! Halloween Ball And Afterparty
Wherever you spent your All Hallows Eve, we bet it wasn't as glamorously over-the-top as this.
New York City nightlife legend Susanne Bartsch pulled out all the stops this year, curating not only the annual MoMA PS1 Halloween ball but a massive after party at the Anable Basin Warehouse a half mile away.
With this being the third year that Bartsch collaborated with MoMA PS1 for the HalloQueens! ball, thousands of outlandish attendees poured through the doors of the main event and the after party throughout the night until close to sunrise ...
Out Magazine: Scenes From the Nightlife! Sex! Drugs! Lip-synch!
The “Every night is Halloween” crowd turned it out for the real Halloween on Friday, wearing even more elaborate costumes than usual thanks to an exhortation from the aforementioned party diva Susanne Bartsch and her wondrous crew of wild things like Amanda Lepore, One-Half Nelson, Gage of the Boone, and Muffinhead. La Bartsch has been branching out to the other boroughs (her monthly Kunst bash is in Brooklyn), as well as to other disciplines (she recently fused art and style for Fashion Week events around town). And now she beckoned us to the forgotten borough of Queens for her HalloQueens! event in Long Island City, a sumptuous MoMA PS1 ball followed by an art-laden after party ...
Daily Front Row: The Daily Davis: Boo! The Style Elite Reveal Their Halloween Costumes
So many cool parties and so many crazy costumes. Will you be going to Fiona Byrne‘s blood-themed bash? Heidi Klum‘s annual media mayhem circus? The Boom Boom Room, where the PYTs will be dressing super “scary”? Amy Sacco‘s No.8? Party Queen Susanne Bartsch‘s “HalloQueens” at MoMA PS1? Well, my loves, you better have your costume sorted out. It’s going to be an Instagram explosion tonight. I rang up some of the city’s chicest to find out all about their looks…
MoMA PS1: HalloQueens! Presented with Susanne Bartsch
MoMA PS1 and Susanne Bartsch present HalloQueens!
Join us to celebrate our current exhibitions at the Third Annual MoMA PS1 Halloween Ball ...
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HalloQueens! at MoMA P.S.1
Famed party promoter Susanne Bartsch, who’s thrown some of New York’s most over-the-top events since the club-kid glory days, is hosting P.S.1’s third Halloween ball. Attendees are encouraged to “come dressed for a royal celebration of all things Queens” and enter a costume competition. Hosts include Eckhaus Latta, Boychild, Telfar Clemens, Maria Cornejo, Amanda Lepore, and Michael Stipe ...
Paper: Our Guide to the Best Halloween Parties in NYC →
HalloQueens! Presented by Susanne Bartsch at MoMA PS1
MoMA PS1's annual Halloween Ball is back in full effect and this year they've teamed up with Susanne Bartsch. They'll be celebrating all things Queen (thought starters include: Queens of Mean, Rock Queens, Queen of the Night) in addition to their current exhibitions, with Boychild, Telfar Clemens, Steven Klein, Eckhaus Latta and more as your royal hosts. Place your bets now for how many Queen Beys you'll spot while dancing to tunes spun by Amber Valentine and Måns Ericson. And don't split out of Queens when the party's over -- after midnight there will be a haunted warehouse after party.
MoMA PS1, 22-25 Jackson Ave, Long Island City. Friday, October 31, 8pm - midnight; tickets are $15 (After Party is $30) and available here.
New York Observer: 12 Things to Do in New York’s Art World Before November 2: Halloween Edition →
Party: HalloQueens! MoMA P.S. Halloween Ball
HalloQueens! Get it? The implication is pretty open ended, as long as it’s a celebration of Queens. Some ideas, provided by the museum, include: Royal Queens, Queens of Mean, Rock Queens, Queens of Art, Queen Bee, Queen of Hearts, and Queen of the Night. We’re going as Jackson Heights. A haunted warehouse after party is hosted by Susanne Bartsch.
Flavor Pill: The Best Halloween Parties →
Halloqueens!, the Halloween bash that has taken over MoMA PS1 for the last three years, is an over the top affair worthy of its creative surroundings. It is produced by Susanne Bartsch, a nightlife goddess who has been throwing outlandish parties all over the world since the '80s, and always attracting a host of gorgeous, oddly dressed, and diverse party-people ...
Next Magazine: Win Passes To Susanne Bartsch's Major Holiday Blowout, HalloQueens! →
Welcome to Bartschland! MoMA PS1’s Halloween Ball is celebrating its third year with a theme fit for its regal host, Susanne Bartsch, and her royal court of nightlife legends. Get ready for HalloQueens, New York!
Party-goers are encouraged to dress to impress, honing all things "queens," so put your best look forward for the ball’s costume competition. Think: Royal Queens, Queens of Mean, Queen Bee, Queen of Hearts, Queen of the Night. Bartsch is heralded for her unforgettably avant-garde parties with looks for days, but that’s on the off-season! Experiencing her Halloween sold-out parties with the crowd serving in holiday spirit is on a plain entirely its own. Susanne Bartsch redefines “costume party.” ...
Document Journal: Susanne Bartsch talks with Joey Arias about Resurrecting nightlife countless times over →
Susanne Bartsch and Joey Arias’s friendship spans more than 30 years. Moving from Switzerland to London when she was just 17, and then to New York in 1981, Susanne has had an incalculable influence on design and fashion worldwide, first as an early introducer of British designers to New York, including John Galliano, Vivienne Westwood, and Stephen Jones, via her store on Thompson Street, and then with her founding of the Love Ball (which became the inspiration for the Life Ball, held each year in Vienna supporting HIV/AIDS). Joey Arias—singer, artist, and performer—catches up with Susanne in her apartment in the Chelsea Hotel and recalls their very first meeting on the street in Soho ...
Huffington Post: On the "A" w/Souleo: Harlem's Fashion Row Celebrates Byron Lars And Beverly Johnson →
The nightlife comes to New York Fashion Week
New York City Midtown passersby were in for a few unexpected sightings as they came across the glass atrium of a commercial building during this season's New York Fashion Week (NYFW). The location was converted into an "Urban Garden Room" by arts organization, chashama and nightlife legend, Susanne Bartsch. It was all part of Art-a-Porter, a takeover of NYFW with a cornucopia of multimedia that fused fashion, theater, performance and visual art by over 50 artists.
In the Urban Garden Room several of New York City's underground culture mainstays including Amanda Lepore created a "surrealist" dinner party with extravagant costumes, art, music and of course, sandwiches. The dinner guests were on display as onlookers took photos and reveled in watching the elaborate tableau. For Bartsch the installation was an attempt to display what she considers the often overlooked and underappreciated art of underground club culture ...
Next Magazine: Bartsch Inspiration: Art-a-Porter @ Anita's Way →
Sept. 7, 2014. Susanne Bartsch launched her second Bartsch Inspiration show, Art-a-Porter, on Sunday at Anita's Way in Times Square ...