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sculpture

[skuhlp-cher] / ˈskʌlp tʃər /
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form a three-dimensional art object
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The sign jokes that the sculpture is the "world's most famous singing bird automata!"

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

The multidisciplinary artist’s new show at the Guggenheim traces an FBI agent’s career through photography, video and sculpture.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

A giant clay sculpture of Pope Leo XIV's head takes shape in a workshop in Peru's capital, as the Andean nation prepares for the pontiff's visit in November.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

The town’s ice sculpture competition is in danger of being canceled forever.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Ortiz’s explanation is that Langlotz had bought the sculpture as a very young man, before he acquired much of his formidable expertise.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

It also coincides with the museum’s presentation along New York Avenue of 10 more of her sculptures.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

Halloween here is a wonderland, and Descanso continues to lean heavily into the fantastical, this year adding glowing wire sculptures from Helsinki-based artist Alexander Reichstein.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Wolfe’s collecting and sale of vigango sculptures have drawn scrutiny.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

“Huguette Caland: A Life in a Few Lines,” opening Sunday at the Hammer Museum, traces that relentless drive across nearly 150 paintings, drawings, sculptures, garments and tapestries.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

Did his people have carvings or sculptures of gods?

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

In “An Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles,” authors David Gebhard and Robert Winter suggest that the ornate ends of the bridge “cry out for sculptured saints.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

Price was best known for his sculptured silhouettes and theatrical styles, including pastel suits which featured in rock band Duran Duran's music video Rio.

From BBC ● Dec. 17, 2025

Later, a sculptured hourglass bodice descended into a segmented skirt that swept the floor.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 25, 2023

On the other side of the fireplace sits the reconfigured lounge, which includes a sofa and an accent wall rendered in abstract, sculptured wood.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 14, 2022

I looked down at them with a sense of detachment, as though they were hands somebody had sculptured and put on exhibition somewhere.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles

A busboy is embraced by the beatnik art community when he develops an impressive but morbid method of sculpturing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2019

After two years of intense production, sculpturing the work in public was “the fun part,” she added.

From New York Times ● May 1, 2013

The moon was just rising, molten white; he had to catch that moment with its surreal, sculpturing incandescence.

From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2013

This lab, for ages 5 and older, will include stories about Ganesh, a hunt through the galleries for his likeness and sculpturing his image in clay.

From New York Times ● Sep. 6, 2012

The original surface of the peak is clearly indicated by the tops of the great rocks which have survived the glacial sculpturing.

From The Mountain that was 'God' Being a Little Book About the Great Peak Which the Indians Named 'Tacoma' but Which is Officially Called 'Rainier' by John H. (John Harvey) Williams


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