In the spring of 1995 I was studying for my A-levels in Cambridge, along with my best friend, Kate. For her final art exam, Kate wanted to create a male torso in the style of a classical sculpture, ...

Broke a bone and need a cast? Well, forget those big, heavy casts that your friends could write on. Dr. Tom Miller speaks with Dr. Bruce Thomas, an orthopedic surgeon, to discuss how physicians now ...

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 ...

As students hunt for tables, stare intently at their computer screens or wait in the endless, winding lines for a between-class snack, they often unwittingly ignore the plaster casts of the Venus de ...

Editor’s note: this article includes a photograph of a plaster cast of a person who died at Pompeii. Bits of human bone recovered from Pompeii, Italy, have yielded DNA from people who died during the ...

Bike, hike or car pool to the multimedia art show titled The Embodiment Project. Organizers of the event are part of an intergenerational women's art collective working to help women discover ways to ...