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sculpture

[skuhlp-cher] / ˈskʌlp tʃər /
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form a three-dimensional art object
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Actor Danny Dyer has delivered a petition to Downing Street calling for water companies to be nationalised after floating a giant poo sculpture down the River Thames on a boat.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

Spanning five decades, the Palm Springs exhibition presents Albuquerque’s multimedia practice through paintings, sculpture, installations and films, including contemporary iterations of earlier works.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 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

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

Imagine what that sculpture looks like now, and you’ll know what I looked like when I was born.

From "Ugly" by Robert Hoge

“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

But the few strong illustrations and even fewer high-quality paintings and sculptures are bracing outliers amid a sea of mostly 19th- and 20th-century melodramatic, sentimental and patriotic illustration.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

Following the show — billowing shapes, punk-y hair sculptures, all classically Collina — we walked into a whimsical picnic complete with a margarita fountain.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

The work of artist and architect Hiroshi Sugimoto, the new garden has been expanded to some 60 sculptures while its relationship to the National Mall and to the Hirshhorn Museum’s plaza has been strengthened.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

Snow-covered fir trees grow straight up out of the floor and huge ice sculptures of dancing penguins and laughing polar bears fill up the spaces between the candlelit tables.

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston

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

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 new Mustang’s exterior has a familiar but more sculptured and modern design.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 4, 2023

In the past experts have believed the image which he sculptured for his own pleasure to be a cupid.

From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg

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

“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

Instead, researchers have moved on to new questions like when and how this sculpturing happened and which of our mental traits are adaptations and which are accidents.

From New York Times ● Feb. 26, 2010

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 Sydney Anderson


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