sculpture
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A 2,000-year-old sculpture sold at Sotheby’s in New York for $34.3 million, after a bidding war to set a record for a Roman antiquity.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
The sign jokes that the sculpture is the "world's most famous singing bird automata!"
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
Even now, he appears in Augustus Saint-Gaudens’s bravura relief sculpture on the Boston Common.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
Philbin oversaw a two-decade,$90-million renovation by Michael Maltzan Architecture that increased gallery space by 60% and added an outdoor sculpture terrace.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
The sculpture was cool, but the real thing is amazing.
From "The Sky at Our Feet" by Nadia Hashimi
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He recently won three beautification awards for a Rancho Santa Fe home where he replaced foundation plants with boulders, gravel, cement pots and flameproof steel plant sculptures with internal lighting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
Clay was used for utilitarian objects such as pottery; roughing out ideas for larger sculptures; and modeling at full size monumental works to be cast in bronze.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
The clay, ceramic and metal sculptures look like munitions and rockets; one features a red handprint that symbolizes blood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
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
Around the fountain, sculptures hid like tree sprites under the topiaries—cupids playing flutes and tambourines, or ladies dancing in their rain-worn stone gowns next to the huge pots of orange trees.
From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper
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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
Coming upon the sculptured, skeletal, bemused-looking goat in 1952’s “La Chèvre,” around the corner, may lead you to hope that wisdom sometimes comes with age.
From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2024
Later, a sculptured hourglass bodice descended into a segmented skirt that swept the floor.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 25, 2023
I hurried to my address and was challenged by the sheer height of the white stone with its sculptured bronze façade.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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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
“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
Norma Lyon, a self-described dairy farmer’s wife and mother of nine who achieved fame well beyond the Midwest as the “butter-cow lady” of the Iowa State Fair, sculpturing tons of U.S.
From New York Times ● Jun. 28, 2011
It can range from painting or sculpturing to commissioning manufactured items like the sets of boxlike aluminum and plexiglass units to which Donald Judd gave no title.
From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2011
We'd picked Jupiter's third moon because its frozen atmosphere permitted some eerie pseudo-ice sculpturing.
From Question of Comfort by Les Collins
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