The Financial Times

The remaster of plaster

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. How do you create a solid object that is both large and light? For London-based artist and designer Alexandra ...
The New York Times

In France, This Workshop Copies the World’s Great Sculptures

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 ...
The Independent

Schoolgirl lost fingers in plaster of Paris

A school was ordered to pay £19,000 today after a 16-year-old girl lost most of her fingers when she put her hands in a bucket of plaster of Paris during a school art lesson. The teenager was ...
The Daily Telegraph

Schoolgirl, 16, lost eight fingers in plaster of Paris accident during art lesson

A 16-year-old girl lost eight of her fingers when they were burned off after becoming set in plaster of Paris during a school art lesson, a court has heard. By Nick Britten and Nickbritten 13 October ...