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"To walk through Bushwick in Brooklyn or Dalston in London, is to walk through a pop culture re-enactment museum, like Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia, only with younger staff and artisanal coffee. Punk, new wave, rockabilly, goth, techno, industrial, hip-hop. Folkies, hippies, skaters, new romantics, teds, club kids, indie kids, b-boys, ska girls, skinheads, casuals, greasers, mods. Internet tech­nology has enabled full-spectrum access to archival images and sounds of the postwar era, allowing pop’s founding texts to be reprinted ad nauseam."

frieze.com/article/what-happen

www.frieze.comWhatever Happened to New Age Travellers?Dropped from the psychic landscape of British pop and undetected by the radar of retromania, where did these diverse communities go?

Home Alone 2 director speaks on the curse of the Trump cameo & his deportation fears

Director Chris #Columbus said #Trump’s 7second appearance in movie has “become this #curse" & if he cuts it, he’ll probably be sent out of the country

Fears of #deportation are rife in US, & several creatives have been speaking out due to Trump’s administration detaining #travellers for weeks & detaining #immigrants over their #political views.

euronews.com/culture/2025/04/1

euronews · 'Home Alone 2' director fears deportation if he cuts Trump cameoDirector Chris Columbus has said that Trump’s seven-second appearance in the movie has “become this curse" and that if he cuts it, he’ll "probably be sent out of the country."

Sans toit ni loi / Vagabond (1985)

Vagabond (French: Sans toit ni loi, "without roof or law") is a 1985 French drama film directed by Agnès Varda, featuring Sandrine Bonnaire. It tells through flashbacks the story of a vagabond who wanders through the Languedoc-Roussillon wine country one winter, beginning after her body is found. The film premiered at the 42nd Venice International Film Festival, where it won the Golden Lion. Vagabond was nominated for four César Awards, with Bonnaire winning Best Actress. The film was the 36th highest-grossing film of the year with a total of 1,080,143 admissions in France.

soulvlog.blogspot.com/2025/04/

soulvlog.blogspot.comSans toit ni loi / Vagabond (1985) Vagabond (French: Sans toit ni loi, "without roof or law") is a 1985 French drama film directed by Agnès Varda, featuring Sandrine Bonnair...

'An Italian hippie'
Vali, a hippie who raises sheep in the Italian countryside, here in front of the entrance to her farm, in Positano, Italy, circa 1960. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

Vali Myers (2 August 1930 – 12 February 2003) was an Australian born artist, bohemian, traveller, tattooist, dancer and muse.

Myers was a flamboyant fantasy artist who worked in pen and ink and watercolour as well as being a nightclub dancer. She divided her life between her adopted home of Melbourne, the Hotel Chelsea in New York City, a 14th-century cottage at Il Porto, near Positano and a residence in Paris.

Her art works developed from early detailed monochromes to a full range of vibrant colours and tones extending to watercolour and gold leaf, displaying a "fastidiously rendered depiction of a personal spirit world". She was acquainted with many celebrities including Tennessee Williams, Salvador Dalí, Django Reinhardt, Jean Cocteau, Patti Smith, Jean Genet and Sam Shepard.

Myers' paintings have sold for up to $US40,000 ($A68,000) in New York. Her work was held in the Stuyvesant collection in the Netherlands, New York's Hurryman Collection, and is owned by private collectors such as George Plimpton and Mick Jagger.