Back in 1966, when she was a 19-year-old art college student (and frustrated virgin) in Chicago, her professor gave Cynthia a weekend assignment to make a plaster cast of "something solid." ...

Explore the artistry involved in transforming humble plaster into captivating sculptures that resonate with beauty and emotion. Top Democrat Schumer backs Republican spending bill to avert ...

A common casting medium, plaster is also a popular pick for making ... This is the best choice for artists who work mostly with clay and need material for slip casting. The fine powder forms ...

Manhattan’s American Museum of Natural History put on a little show this week to make the weariest museum trudger smile: eight plaster statuettes ... What the sculptures lacked in naturalism ...

An artisan at work in the Plaster Cast Workshop of the GrandPalaisRmn in Saint-Denis, a suburb of Paris. The workshop was founded in 1794 to create casts of sculptures for the Louvre, and to ...

If an artist is judged by the company his work keeps, Peter Agostini is a pop sculptor. At the current sculpture exhibition in Manhattan’s Jewish Museum, Agostini’s plaster popovers are on ...

In the Museum of Plaster Casts of Ancient Art you can discover about 2000 full-sized replicas of Greek and Roman sculptures - right in the center of Munich. Around 2000 replicas of Greek and Roman ...

Included is a 19th-century bronze version of “David,” plaster casts of the four famed allegorical figures seen on the tombs of the Medici Chapel, and 3D-printed and cast sculptures of Pope ...