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
Both then and earlier, the materials of sculpture had primarily been stone and bronze.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
Before unveiling the sculpture, he watched the pupils perform the Aberfan Song and well-known children's song Everyone Belongs.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
The striking sculpture will hover over a cozy space with modular bookshelves that are arranged on a floor covered in book quotes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
Today, those who study Mayan culture are astonished by their art, architecture, sculpture, and painting and their understandings of time and mathematics.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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He was also known for his metal cube sculptures, which have been called quilt-like.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 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
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
Wolfe also acquired more than 100 Ghanaian fantasy coffins — figurative sculptures, some stretching 10 to 12 feet long, also known as Fantastic Afterlife Vehicles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Villages that made beautiful sculptures out of clay and hardened them with fire.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
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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
David Blond said he wanted the collection to merge the future of the brand with its move toward more ready-to-wear activewear while still paying homage to their past with more sculptured pieces.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 15, 2022
He painted whirling murals and sculptured shapes that moved.
From New York Times ● Sep. 12, 2022
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
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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
After two years of intense production, sculpturing the work in public was “the fun part,” she added.
From New York Times ● May 1, 2013
This lab, for ages 5 and older, will include stories about Ganesh, a hunt through the galleries for his likeness and sculpturing his image in clay.
From New York Times ● Sep. 6, 2012
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
No cameo carving, but large, bold, rough, heroic sculpturing.
From Whitman A Study by John Burroughs
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