Link About It: This Week’s Picks

Selfie performance art, a benefit auction for Syria, how our brains respond to music and more in our weekly look around the web

1. Hello! Selfie Miami Like a real-life Tumblr page, artist, author and feminist Kate Durbin created “Hello!Selfie Miami,” a performance piece that occurred last week during Miami Art Week. The response to a man’s attack on Durbin’s piece about teen girls’s selfies manifested in a bunch of young women—dressed as mermaids and covered in Hello Kitty stickers—taking selfies for hours on end, with no interaction …

For True Fans Only: Merch Junkies

One-off vintage pieces dressed up with the names of rock'n'roll stars and glam rock legends

It started out with a Bowie jacket NYC-based stylist and photographer Zara Mirkin made for herself. “I was always painting on the back of jackets and jeans,” she tells CH. “The idea came about after I had so many people take photos of my Bowie jacket and ask for one. I concepted this idea with my best friend to make bootleg homemade one off band …

Art + Fashion: Collaborations and Connections Between Icons

A stunning hardcover tome that explores some of the world's most memorable joint ventures

Over its 224 pages, the stunning Art + Fashion: Collaborations and Connections Between Icons displays what occurs when high fashion and art collide. From the surreal lobster dress by Italian fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli and Salvador Dalí to the Keith Haring-smothered fabrics of Vivienne Westwood to Takashi Murakami and Louis Vuitton’s collaborative efforts and more, the results are as memorable as the names behind them. …