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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 city of Philadelphia has permanently installed an 8½-foot bronze sculpture of Rocky Balboa outside the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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

Some are placed on a sculpture resembling the Rub el Hizb, an Islamic star shaped like an octagram.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

With greater intelligence came imagination and the ability to create images in both painting and sculpture.

From "The Annotated Mona Lisa" by Carol Strickland and John Boswell

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

Paintings, sculptures, ceramics and books line every available wall, shelf and tabletop.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

At Huxley-Parlour, SaraNoa Mark’s chunky cast-glass sculptures look like fragments of artifacts from an ancient alien civilization.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 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

Inside, the home is sunny, cozy, and absolutely immaculate, lined with framed photos and green potted plants, clay pots, and odd, metallic sculptures.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu

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

His charming, whimsical collection featured ruffled tutus, sculptured soft knits, peplum jackets, skirts with bustles and plenty of shearling fabric.

From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2026

Her award-winning face, statuesque figure and sculptured features made her blend in with the younger cohort onstage.

From Seattle Times ● May 25, 2024

He painted whirling murals and sculptured shapes that moved.

From New York Times ● Sep. 12, 2022

His earlocks hung down along the sides of his sculptured face, and his eyes were bright and very blue.

From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok

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

With the promise of sculpturing lean, long muscles, his workout has attracted celebrity devotees, including Sofía Vergara and Kim Kardashian.

From New York Times ● Sep. 19, 2014

And indeed there was a time when sculpturing a star’s hair into the perfect beach wave or contouring winglike cheekbones was a prized job.

From New York Times ● Jan. 23, 2013

The Weinstein Company is set to release “Butter,” in which Jennifer Garner plays an ambitious conservative who gets caught up in the world of competitive butter sculpturing, on Oct.

From New York Times ● May 30, 2012

The dermal roofing bones bear ornate and characteristic patterns of sculpturing.

From A Synopsis of Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Osteocephalus by William E. Duellman


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