Manhattan’s American Museum of Natural History put on a little show this week to make the weariest museum trudger smile: eight plaster statuettes of fabled animals. Among them were Pegasus sitting ...

KISSIMMEE — Richard Valentino spends so much time promoting the visual arts that some people don’t realize he is an accomplished artist himself. As a child in Cleveland, Valentino lived in an area ...

Q: We recently purchased a 1926 colonial house with mostly horsehair plaster walls. This is my first experience with plaster walls, and I’m afraid they are going to crumble when I hang artwork, etc.

For Kruse, the structure of the installation, and its materials, are the world; the maquettes symbolise different psychological states and the endless permutations of human behaviour. The materials ...

In 17th-century France the still life was considered the lowliest of genres, art historian John Wilmerding writes in the lushly illustrated catalog for this illuminating exhibition. Artists like ...

600,000 square miles. Nowhere to hide.

“We have a patient. We have placed him in a plaster cast. We keep him there until the wound heals,” said Premier George Papadopoulos, the colonel who is strongman of the current Greek military regime.

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Copy print of original silver gelatin ...

Thirty-five years ago, when John Doherty was doing rehab work for Campus Apartments, removing old plasterwork to make way for drywall, he was struck by the beauty of the buildings’ antique plaster ...