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

Her arms are wrapped around her head and her wool blanket is twisted around her midsection and her pillow is jammed into the crack between mattress and wall—even in sleep, a tableau of friction.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026

Our critic called it “a loosely sketched drama told via visually impeccable tableaus and a few flights of well-staged fancy.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 25, 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

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

Shakespeare in the park is the dominant form of outdoor theater, but don’t miss out on seeing Broadway musicals in Rancho Mirage, the ancients at Getty Villa or tableaux come to life in Laguna Beach.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 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

The staging, arranged around striking tableaux, is at once cinematic and fleetly theatrical.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026

It was a museum used for propaganda displays of various kinds—scale models of rocket bombs and Floating Fortresses, waxwork tableaux illustrating enemy atrocities, and the like.

From "1984" by George Orwell