Inspired By NYC HighLine, the 10-Mile Long Underline Comes to Miami

An exciting new urban regeneration project is coming to Miami. The Underline will comprise a 10-mile stretch of land below Miami's Metrorail. Designed by James Corner Field Operations -- who also designed the High Line -- the Underline will include biking and pedestrian paths we well as a rotating public arts program that includes sculpture, performance, and installations. 

Declaring the $120 million project as one of his priorities, Miami-Dade County mayor Carlos A. Giminez committed $3 million towards the Underline, which has been forecast to increase economic output along US Route 1 by $170 million in during construction and by $50 million annually after completion, as well as raising local property values by an estimated $650 million.

Commissioned by Miami-Dade Cultural Affairs & Art in Public Places the installations are funded by a $200,000 grant from ArtPlace America. The inaugural art show includes four commissions by Miami-based artists Bhakti Baxter, Naomi Fischer, Nicolas Lobo, and Agustina Woodgate, which will be unveiled at an exclusive flashlight tour on Thursday evening. via ArtNet.

Mert & Marcus Flash Donatella, Taraji, Jessica, Kate & Jennifer For W Magazine March 2017

Mert & Marcus Flash Donatella, Taraji, Jessica, Kate & Jennifer For W Magazine March 2017

Naomi Campbell Enjoys 'Legend Status', Flashed By Max Vadukul For Town & Country US March 2017

Naomi Campbell Enjoys 'Legend Status', Flashed By Max Vadukul For Town & Country US March 2017

Lindsey Wixson Is Sunny In Daniel Matallana Images For Harper's Bazaar Mexico February 2017

Lindsey Wixson Is Sunny In Daniel Matallana Images For Harper's Bazaar Mexico February 2017

Nik Stewart Gets Sporty In Luke Sneider Images For Factice Magazine February 2017

Nik Stewart Gets Sporty In Luke Sneider Images For Factice Magazine February 2017

Lottie Moss Fronts Harper's Bazaar Russia February 2017 In Images By Rachell Smith

Lottie Moss Fronts Harper's Bazaar February 2017 In Images By Rachell Smith

Irina Shayk Is Lensed By Harley Weir In Sardegna For Missoni Spring/Summer 2017

Irina Shayk Is Lensed By Harley Weir In Sardegna For Missoni Spring/Summer 2017

Women's News Archives January 2017

Beyoncé & Jay Z Are Pregnant With Twins

The cultural, political, feminist music powerhouse known as Beyoncé dropped baby news in an Instagram post on Wednesday. The bombshell was just another example of the pop star's strong preference for controlling her own narrative. 

The news comes as 'Lemonade' is nominated for nine Grammy Awards, hosted on Feb. 12. The happy baby mama is also scheduled to headline the second night of the Coachella festival, scheduled April 15 and April 22 in the California desert.  There's no word now if the show will go on. (Updated) Word is that Beyoncé plans on performing two nights at Coachella, in her third trimester with twins. She'll have two special guests with her. And there is an insurance policy in place, in case she can't perform. 

Beyoncé signed her Instagram post 'The Carters', yet another signal of happy times for the couple. Their daughter Blue Ivy Carter, was born on Jan. 7, 2012. The New York Times writes: 

While Beyoncé is famously averse to interviews and rarely discusses her personal life without setting the terms, she put the spotlight on her marriage with the release last year of the album and HBO film “Lemonade.”

It told the story of a struggling relationship, including explicit infidelity and, eventually, reconciliation. Many assumed the songs’ lyrics — which ranged from heartbroken to defiant to forgiving — were autobiographical, though the couple never revealed how much of the story was based in reality.

Whatever are these celebs drinking these days. Pharrell Williams and his wife, Helen Lasichanh, are reported to have recently welcomes triplets. 

Vanity Fair posits Beyoncé in a historical perspective with 'Where You've Seen Beyoncé's Pregnancy Reveal Photo Before Vanity Fair

Devon Windsor Fronts Anaïs Mali Launch Collection of Luxury, Super Sexy Bodysuits

Devon Windsor Fronts Anaïs Mali Launch Collection of Luxury, Super Sexy Bodysuits

Fernanda Ly Goes Bold In Bjorn Iooss Images For Glamour US March 2017

Fernanda Ly Goes Bold In Bjorn Iooss Images For Glamour US March 2017

Adwoa Aboah Works Her Look In Robbie Fimmano Snaps For Glamour March 2017

Adwoa Aboah Works Her Look In Robbie Fimmano Snaps For Glamour March 2017

Trump's Shock & Awe Campaign On America's Psyche Is Only The Beginning In A Society Dominated By Technology & AI

Trump's Shock & Awe Campaign On America's Psyche Is Only The Beginning In A Society Dominated By Technology & AI

Reflecting on the first two weeks of the Trump presidency, I've come to the same place as TA Frank, writing for Vanity Fair. Trump's approach, advocated also by his close advisers, is to completely stun us with his actions and also own the media narrative. I'm sick of him taking over the evening news cycle; I don't want to see his sorry-ass -- now sandy-brown instead of his bleached blonde mop -- combed-backward tresses. Still, I see the Trump administration's shock and awe strategy, and we must not fall for it.

It occurs to me that people like our veterans of wars and even people who come from abusive relationships are better able to withstand the Trump assault without losing our minds. Instead of losing our minds, reflect back on the times in your life when were under assault -- whether on the battle field or in the bedroom. If you were a battered child, how did you become the successful, thriving person you are today?

Did you lose your mind and go running around like some beheaded creature? NO. You sucked it in, steeled your nerves and faced the enemy. You calculated not only how to survive, but also how to regain control of the situation. Citizens across the spectrum from far-left progressives to centrists to old-fashioned Republicans must stay calm, deliberate and focused. The new marches are fantastic in their lack of violence and self-discipline.

Mica Arganaraz In 'Escape Plan' By Angelo Pennetta For WSJ Magazine February 2017

Mica Arganaraz In 'Escape Plan' By Angelo Pennetta For WSJ Magazine February 2017

US Holocaust Museum Clearly Defines Holocaust For Trumpsters

“Millions of other innocent civilians were persecuted and murdered by the Nazis, but the elimination of Jews was central to Nazi policy. As Elie Wiesel said, ‘Not all victims were Jews, but all Jews were victims.'”

Millions of Americans were astonished that on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, President Trump made no mention of Jews. The position of the new administration seemed to be that many suffered under the Nazis and there is no reason to highlight the suffering of the Jewish people. 

Washington DC's US Holocaust Museum felt compelled to issue a statement. “The Holocaust was the systematic, state-sponsored murder of six million Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators … Nazi ideology cast the world as a racial struggle, and the singular focus on the total destruction of every Jewish person was at its racist core,” the statement reads.

Anja Rubik Is Lensed By Chris Colls For Vogue Mexico February 2017 Cover Story

Anja Rubik Is Lensed By Chris Colls For Vogue Mexico February 2017 Cover Story

Dalianah Arekion Sizzles In Andre Sarda Spring/Summer 2017 Ad Campaign By Jonas Bresnan

Dalianah Arekion Sizzles In Andre Sarda Spring/Summer 2017 Ad Campaign By Jonas Bresnan

Opening Ceremony NYCB Collab With Justin Peck Was Perfectly-Timed Trump Protest

Opening Ceremony NYCB Collab With Justin Peck Was Perfectly-Timed Trump Protest

Opening Ceremony designers Humberto Leon and Carol Lim have always politicized their fashion. Six months ago, they registered people to vote at their New York Fashion Week show. We knew that the designers intended to present their new collection in advance of New York Fashion Week, working on a third collaboration, choreographed by Justin Peck of the New York City Ballet and titled 'The Times are Racing'. 

Little did the artists know that at the same time protesters were fighting their way towards New York's JFK airport to protest the Trump administrations poorly-executed ban on refugees and even green card residents from seven primarily Muslim nations, their show would hit the Lincoln Center stage in a resounding third ballet, uplifting style chorus designed to support the protesters with slogans reading 'Defy,' 'Protest', 'Unite' and 'Fight'. These pieces make up the brand's Action capsule, presented as a see-now, buy-now collection and they served as a celebration of New York City's melting pot status.  Read on in AOC Salon. 

Raf Stahelin Flashes Kirin Dejonckheere In Alaia For The Edit January 26, 2017

Raf Stahelin Flashes Kirin Dejonckheere In Alaia For The Edit January 26, 2017

Kate Gilmore & Karen Heagle Depict Women's Power Structure Anger In 'Stomp'

Writing for Artnet, Blake Gopnik stopped by New York's On Stellar Rays gallery to catch Kate Gilmore's Stomp, performed Saturdays and Sundays, 4 to 6 pm. until February 19, 2017. Dressed in red sweatsuits and Kodiak construction boots, every few seconds three young women stamp and slap and punch out out their anger at the status quo. The sounds of their anger make the entire gallery echo with their ritual designed to dismantle the power structure. 

The stompers are juxtaposed against the backdrop of Gilmore's friend artist Karen Heagle's works on paper that "depict still life, landscape, portraiture and animal subjects. Her work often reflects autobiographical symbolism thematically focused on memento mori, feminism, sexuality and queer identity."

The New Yorker writes that the women's combat boots and brass knuckles had succeeded in chipping away only small bits of red enamel; Gilmore herself spent a week "attacking a fourth cube with a sledgehammer", on view in an adjacent room. The artist and her performers are protagonists, channeling the emotion, fury, and frustration in America's unsettling political moment -- one that threatens to dismantle political rights for women, the LGBTQ community and people of color gained over the last 50 years. Meanwhile, Heagle summons her "inner Ovid", comments New York Magazine, "giving us a scary menagerie of birds tearing at flesh".

'The Grief Which Has Not Yet Come May Be Avoided' by Karen Heagle