sculpture
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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
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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
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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
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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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