sculpture
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Much like paper must be folded into the correct shape to create an origami sculpture, proteins inside cells must form precise three-dimensional structures before they can function properly.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 2026
Our critic noted that the show is “joyful proof that diminutive sculpture can be intimate, funny and even moving.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
One of the things Kreitzman is rarely seen without is a neck shrine, a chunky personalised sculpture to wear around the neck.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
Maybe the Faces of Elysian Valley, a traffic circle sculpture that Huckle said “looks like Easter Island in the middle of Cypress Park.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
When Jo sees the sculpture later, she thinks it looks exactly like Theo.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
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Bayouth finds older women respond frequently to her female-figured sculptures, while a younger crowd is drawn to her catlike creatures.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
She finds a protective quality in Bayouth’s sculptures, almost as if they’re a “little guardian.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
In those solo presentations, Usha Seejarim’s conceptual sculptures and wall works examined gender and sexuality through repurposed objects, and Mmangaliso Nzuza’s biographical paintings infused Western art history with African trends.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Kreitzman's Mile End house is filled from top to bottom with pictures and sculptures, on every colourful wall, on every table, in every room and corridor.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
They walked under sculptures of open books dangling from wires like birds in flight and soon found themselves in front of City Lights.
From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
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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
Natalie Tanner was one of the first people to move into the development, and said she was promised sculptured gardens, which are yet to materialise.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2023
Meet an Australian supermodel for the ages: six feet tall with a sculptured visage, endless legs and piercing orange eyes.
From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2023
The idea is that you place your hand inside the mouth of this large sculptured mask, and then let the magic of the Bocca della Verita be your lie detector.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 11, 2021
Until dawn, when the stars went out one by one, and the grey light changed the sculptured figures back into immobility.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
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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
She started by sculpturing sandstone rock formations, to which she recently began applying a series of red and brown washes.
From New York Times ● Jul. 16, 2013
“Then we would cut the foam board and build it up,” he said, often sculpturing it to fit the shapes in the painting.
From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2012
He stopped making them in 1959 and didn’t take up sculpturing again until 1976.
From New York Times ● Mar. 10, 2011
The site of this bond is evident in the tuberosities and sculpturing of the base of the baculum.
From The Baculum in Microtine Rodents by Anderson, Sydney
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