Sentence examples for artistic honor from inspiring English sources

The Tony for best play, by contrast, is a coveted artistic honor, though it rarely makes a big difference at the box office.

They believe that the Clinton Administration should get credit for rescuing the awards from mediocrity, after President Bush bypassed the National Council on the Arts' suggestions in 1992 and gave Minnie Pearl the nation's highest artistic honor.

Founded in 1947, the Tony Awards, which will be broadcast on CBS on June 6 with Mr. Jackman as host, function both as Broadway's highest artistic honor and as its most visible marketing tool.

Over twenty years later, in 1997, Rich declined the National Medal for the Arts, this country's highest artistic honor, because she believed that "the very meaning of art, as I understand it, is incompatible with the cynical politics of this administration".

"In 1956, the Japanese government's Committee for the Preservation of Intangible Cultural Heritage designated his print Zojo Temple in Snow at Shiba and the documentation of its production as Intangible Cultural Treasures, the greatest artistic honor in post-war Japan.

FOR decades now, Robert Rauschenberg has held the highest artistic honors: for starters, pride of place on the walls of institutions like MoMA, the Guggenheim and the Tate, not to mention in an assortment of well-thumbed art-world memoirs.

At that time the Lincoln Center artistic staff will honor Mr. Schwarz by naming him Mostly Mozart's first Conductor Laureate.

The Tonys may not, after all, have the same audience appeal as the Oscars, but they do still have the ability to make a career, honor artistic achievement and -- sniff, sniff -- make reality out of dreams.

Despite its status as a landmark, the Walk of Fame is not some kind of altruistic government operation to honor artistic achievement.

Be sure to check out photos of artistic elephants in honor of last month's Elephant Appreciation Day.

The Grammy Awards, an annual ceremony established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, are presented by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position".