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 ...

“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.

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 ...