A common casting medium, plaster is also a popular pick for making molds. Using this substance, which is manufactured in powder form, is ideal when you want a rigid structure to make casts as an ...

“Good Figure: Bruce Gagnier, Plaster Works from 2019 and 1983” at Thomas Park Gallery, installation view (all images courtesy Thomas Park Gallery) In 2016, in a interview with Christine Hughes and ...

The Plaster Cast Workshop of the GrandPalaisRmn has molds of more than 6,000 artworks such as the “Venus de Milo” and Alexander the Great’s foot. An artisan at work in the Plaster Cast Workshop of the ...

Appraisal: 18th-Century Polychrome Plaster Figures, from Vintage San Francisco. Watch Kenneth Winslow's appraisal of a pair of 18th-century polychrome plaster figures, in Vintage San Francisco.

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 show across ...

When Ian McMahon's "Sojourn" at T+H Gallery closes on April 22, the artist will destroy his work. He has to. It's the only way he can get his giant sculpture out the door. He spent 12 days building ...

Manuel Neri, “Joan Brown Seated, (1959) aluminum with Alborada patina; oil-based pigments with yellow glaze, cast 1963, re-patina applied 2016, 30 1⁄4 x 12 1⁄2 x 27 inches; pedestal: 30 x 19 x 27 ...

They may not be real, but they are certainly presences—insistent as memory, disturbing as a sudden hush in a crowded room. Ghostly white, implacably still, they command a whole ambiance around ...

Nicole Eisenman’s site-specific work for Skulptur Projekte Münster, Sketch for a Fountain, has been “seriously damaged” by vandals in the night between Wednesday, July 19, and Thursday, July 20. One ...

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