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 ...
New York Post

Hundreds of vagina plaster casts spill onto road after crash

They came a long way — but probably didn’t make the opening. Hundreds of white plaster casts of vaginas, believed to have been en route to an art gallery, tumbled onto a road in Irkutsk, Russia, last ...
Ars Technica

DNA shows Pompeii’s dead aren’t who we thought they were

People have long been fascinated by the haunting plaster casts of the bodies of people who died in Pompeii when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE. Archaeologists have presented certain popular ...
Nature

First DNA from Pompeii body casts illuminates who victims were

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 ...
insider.si.edu

Destroy the copy - plaster cast collections in the 19th-20th centuries demolition, defacement, disposal in Europe and beyond edited by Annetta Alexandridis and Lorenz Winkler ...

Introduction / Annetta Alexandridis and Lorenz Winkler-Horaček -- I. (Post)colonial contexts -- Introduction / Annetta Alexandridis -- The (mis)performance of cast collections / Henrik Holm -- The ...