{"id":64347,"date":"2025-03-02T13:30:35","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T18:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=64347"},"modified":"2025-03-04T13:28:26","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T18:28:26","slug":"awards-mean-little-beyond-publicity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2025\/03\/awards-mean-little-beyond-publicity.html","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Awards Mean Little Beyond Publicity<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/wins-hands-down-z40.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"327\" data-attachment-id=\"64538\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/screenshot-128\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/wins-hands-down-z40.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"240,327\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Screenshot&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Screenshot&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Screenshot\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Screenshot&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/wins-hands-down-z40-220x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/wins-hands-down-z40.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/wins-hands-down-z40.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-64538\" style=\"width:146px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/wins-hands-down-z40.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/wins-hands-down-z40-220x300.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Are the Oscars the staff of life? Of course not. But they certainly seem like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/23\/movies\/oscar-nominations-emilia-perez-brutalist-wicked.html\">food for the hungry<\/a>.\u00a0<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_prizes,_medals,_and_awards\">The list of awards is nearly endless.<\/a>&nbsp;There are hundreds, maybe thousands, honoring everything \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_academic_awards\">brains<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_beauty_pageants\">beauty<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Academy_Awards\">movies<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_theatre_awards\">theater<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_adult_industry_awards\">pornography<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_advertising_awards\">advertising<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_awards_for_contributions_to_society\">do-gooders<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lists_of_art_awards\">art<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_poetry_awards\">poetry<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Music_award\">music<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_motor_vehicle_awards\">cars<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_medals_for_bravery\">bravery<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_fashion_awards\">fashion<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_comedy_and_humor_awards\">comedy<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Templeton_Prize\"> religion<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_legal_awards\">law<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pipe_Smoker_of_the_Year\">smoking<\/a>, g<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rear_of_the_Year\">ood-looking buttocks<\/a> \u2014 I&#8217;ll stop <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grammy.com\">here<\/a>. It should be news to nobody that most if not all awards for excellence have little meaning beyond publicity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Are awards the staff of life? Of course not. But they certainly seem like food for the hungry.<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":64538,"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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,26,18,4,21,22,23,17,25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-64347","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-art","8":"category-books","9":"category-literature","10":"category-main","11":"category-movies","12":"category-music","13":"category-news","14":"category-political-culture","15":"category-theater","16":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/wins-hands-down-z40.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-gJR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64347"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65374,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64347\/revisions\/65374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}