Tracey Emin joins many in paying tribute to the late David Hockney, describing Hockney to ITN News as ‘a great artist and a wonderful man, who, with the power of art, changed the perception of Britishness’; Nike collaborates with A Magazine Curated By on their latest issue, creating A Manual for Living, with sections on Mind, Body, Soul, Desire and Imagination; Marina Abromović designs a wine bottle label for the Tuscan producer Ornellaia's annual Vendemmia d'Artista commission, with sales benefitting The Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation in New York; The Contemporary Garden wins the Floral & Garden award at the Booktique Awards party, held at the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles; Yves Saint Laurent and Photography reveals how the fashion designer ‘saw the power of photography to push boundaries and take risks that had an impact in the fashion world and beyond,' says the Guardian about the International Center of Photography’s exhibition in New York; BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group win a RIBA International Award for Excellence for The Plus, a carbon-neutral furniture factory and public park in Norway, and is shortlisted for the RIBA International Prize, to be announced in October; The Rise of Indian Food author Himanshu Saini wins Chef of the Year (International) at the NDTV Food Awards, held in New Delhi; unable to attend in person, his parents accepted the award on his behalf, and shared memories of his first experiments in the kitchen aged 10; Faye Toogood is awarded an MBE for services to Design and Fashion in King Charles Birthday Honours List; the late Martin Parr’s iconic series The Last Resort, shot in 1983 and 1985 in New Brighton, a decaying seaside resort near Liverpool, will go on a tour of the British seaside; works by Tracey Emin, Cerith Wyn Evans, Theaster Gates, Antony Gormley, and Jeff Wall go on display for the summer at Claydon House in Buckinghamshire, the home of the Verney family since 1620, presented by the National Trust with White Cube; Art Basel visitors can enter the Basel Social Club’s raffle for $12 to win a work by Andy Warhol; the work is a signed dollar bill, with an abstracted drawing of a Campbell soup tin, and compares well with average prices for dollar bills signed by Warhol, which typically fetch $800 to $5,000 at auction, reports The Art Newspaper.
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