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 ...

In 1952 Barbara Hepworth described plaster as ‘a dead material excluding all the magical and sensuous qualities of the sculptural idea’. And yet, just over a decade later, she wished to bequeath to a ...

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 ...

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 ...

From his basement studio in Brooklyn, New York, American sculptor Justin Ryan Kendall creates affordable plaster casts of classic masterpieces. At any one time, he could be simultaneously casting a ...

European cast making and exchange of plaster copies have played an essential role in the worship of Classical art in European and North American aesthetics, higher education, and architecture. In ...

Can a copy ever be more authentic, and more informative, than an original work of art? To visit the Atelier de Moulage, Brussels’ Plaster Cast Workshop, is to glimpse behind the scenes. Hidden behind ...