Cluster: Swiss Identity

Museum combines paintings with fashion

This content was published on Apr 18, 2000 Paintings and fashion might seem unlikely bedfellows – the first are created to last while the second is temporary by its very nature. But an exhibition in Lausanne breaks down barriers to cohabitation between the two. “Fashions and Paintings” at the city’s Fine Arts Museum covers a period from the 18th century to the 1920s.…

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Art exhibition of nude photographs

This content was published on Apr 18, 2000 The “Century of the Human Body” is being celebrated by an international exhibition of photographs at the Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne. It covers a wide range of themes including the erotic, but above all it presents photography as art. This is the second of a three-part exhibition spread out over the whole year. Museum…

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Del Ponte presses for Milosevic, Mladic, Karadzic arrests

This content was published on Apr 14, 2000 The Swiss head of the United Nations war crimes tribunal, Carla del Ponte, has said that the Yugoslav President, Slobodan Milosevic, cannot be allowed to evade international justice any longer. She said it was a priority for the tribunal to arrest him, along with the former Bosnian Serb leader, Radovan Karadzic, and his wartime military…

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Canyoning company scraps plan to resume excursions at accident site

This content was published on Apr 14, 2000 The Swiss company that organized a canyoning trip last summer during which 21 people died has called off plans to resume excursions in the gorge where the accident took place. Adventure World said the concerned reactions of the victims’ relatives and of the Australian government had led to their change of plan. The company, based…

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Basel hosts first major exhibition of Twombly sculpture

This content was published on Apr 14, 2000 The Kunstmuseum – fine arts museum – in Basel has mounted the first major exhibition of sculptures by Cy Twombly, an American regarded as one of the most important artists of our time. Born in 1928 in Lexington, Virginia, Twombly has exhibited throughout the world as a painter. But until now his sculptures have rarely…

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Refugee repatriation difficulties under the microscope

This content was published on Apr 14, 2000 As the deadline for refugees from Kosovo to leave Switzerland and return home approaches, officials from the Swiss Federal Office for Refugees and from non-governmental organisations have been holding talks on how the sensitive issue of forcible repatriations should be dealt with. There are currently an estimated 34,000 Kosovar refugees in Switzerland who will become…

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Catholic Church formally apologises to Jewish Community

This content was published on Apr 14, 2000 The Catholic church in Switzerland has formally apologised for not doing enough to help Jews during World War Two. The Bishops’ Conference asked for forgiveness to pave the way for normal relations with the Jewish community. In a declaration, presented in Berne, the bishops said it was painful to admit that the church had remained…

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Exhibition sheds light on colour

This content was published on Apr 14, 2000 An art exhibition tracing the transformation of colour into light has opened at the Beyeler Foundation just outside Basel. Part of it is in the open-air, but most is in a museum which could have been built with such a theme in mind. When Italian architect Renzo Piano designed the Beyeler museum, he created a…

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THE WEEK IN SWITZERLAND

This content was published on Apr 14, 2000 Swiss banking secrecy, the future of the state pension scheme and the trial of a notorious right-wing extremist were among the main headlines this week in Switzerland. Swiss banking secrecy came under the spotlight in a report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. A fiscal committee of the OECD called for improved access…

Swiss tourism booming despite drop in foreign visitors

This content was published on Apr 13, 2000 The number of tourists visiting Switzerland has risen for the third year in succession, but the number of foreigners visiting the country has dropped. The president of Switzerland Tourism, Dick Marty, said although prospects for the future are good, the tourism industry must make an effort to ensure it can offer good quality holidays. Marty…

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