{"id":430,"date":"2009-04-15T04:00:50","date_gmt":"2009-04-15T11:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/04\/trophies_-_you_are_already_a_w\/"},"modified":"2009-04-15T04:00:50","modified_gmt":"2009-04-15T11:00:50","slug":"trophies_-_you_are_already_a_w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/04\/trophies_-_you_are_already_a_w.html","title":{"rendered":"Trophies &#8211; You are already a winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Hilarie M Sheets in the New York Times, a feature on Jean Shin&#8217;s elaborate trophy landscape at the <a href=\"http:\/\/americanart.si.edu\/exhibitions\/#69\">Smithsonian American Art Museum<\/a>, opening May 1. (Story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/12\/arts\/design\/12shee.html?ref=arts\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Shin, who refashioned thousands of trophies, did not need to look far and wide for material. Trophies are everywhere.The cheap charm of pats on the back disguises the ruthless sorting of unregulated Capitalism.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"shee_span1.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/shee_span1.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" width=\"450\" height=\"165\" \/><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/art21\/artists\/suh\/index.html\">Do-Ho Suh<\/a> turned a mass of humanity into a trophy for an overlord.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"do-ho-suh.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/do-ho-suh.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" width=\"450\" height=\"360\" \/><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianfrench.com\/\">Christian French<\/a> turned his into a storefront shrine &#8211; buy your Buddhism here.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"christianfrenchshrine.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/christianfrenchshrine.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" width=\"450\" height=\"291\" \/><\/span><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gregkucera.com\/markovitz.htm\">Sherry Markovitz<\/a> recast a hunter&#8217;s prize as an emblem of the spiritual realm.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sherry markovitz.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/sherry%20markovitz.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" width=\"450\" height=\"476\" \/><\/span><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/losangeles.metromix.com\/events\/photogallery\/art-attack-nicola-vruwink\/370557\/content\">Nicola Vruwink<\/a> made a trophy of herself. It&#8217;s herself she can&#8217;t get away from, with all the years of training in the art of feminine wiles. As Oscar Levant said years ago about Doris Day, &#8220;Nobody loves a fairy once she&#8217;s 40.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"vruwinkdoll.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/vruwinkdoll.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" width=\"250\" height=\"376\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Hilarie M Sheets in the New York Times, a feature on Jean Shin&#8217;s elaborate trophy landscape at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, opening May 1. (Story here.) Shin, who refashioned thousands of trophies, did not need to look far and wide for material. Trophies are everywhere.The cheap charm of pats on the back disguises [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-430","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}