tableau

A group of people were gathered around a large dining table beneath a massive chandelier of antler, a tableau that evoked some kind of Viking summit.

From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026

The surrounding landscape—a moody tableau of steel-gray skies and jagged mountains—is the work of AI.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026

This is the dismal tableau today in Venezuela’s Maracaibo Basin, which, for much of the last century, was one of the globe’s leading sources of petroleum.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2026

But as the company grew, marketing its locations as a tableau in which to “stay awhile” ultimately meant there was a finite number of people they could sell coffee to per day.

From Slate ● Dec. 22, 2025

She took one look at the tableau before her and pushed her way past Richard and his fiancée to gather up Ophie into her arms, her gaze locked on Mrs. Caruthers.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland

Anadol refers to these large-scale, shimmering tableaus as “digital sculptures.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026

These tableaus take place against the backdrop of an increasingly militarized vision of Christmas that permeates American pop culture.

From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2025

The film is a loosely sketched drama told via visually impeccable tableaus and a few flights of well-staged fancy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025

Following the processions, the bonfire societies burned their tableaus and let off fireworks in their respective fields.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2024

Millet had planned an elaborate series of explosive “set pieces,” fireworks affixed to large metal frames shaped to depict various portraits and tableaus.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

Even so, it is the act of assembling disparate icons and references into resonant wholes that affords Saar’s sculptures and tableaux their personal and political import.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

Wright manages his scene like Classical or biblical tableaux, but his subject and cast are as modern as the philosopher’s machines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 14, 2026

The London museum highlights the 18th-century painter’s rich, shadowy tableaux, emblematic of their age of intellectual discovery.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 14, 2026

Think stark pastel tableaux by cinematographer Pasit Tandaechanurat and human performers who act about as energetically as furniture.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2026

“Behold, the astonishingly lifelike tableaux vivant of Leeds’ Thespians on Demand!”

From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood