But painting directly onto fresh plaster isn't as straightforward as it seems. Unsurprisingly, it's not as simple as just coating your new walls with your chosen paint colors. There are steps you ...

Interested in how objects attain cultural value, McCollum’s Surrogate Paintings are uniquely produced yet intended to seem manufactured, questioning both the process of labor and the value of ...

If you've just upgraded your walls with plaster, you're probably excited about rolling up your sleeves and adding a touch of personalization with some paint. But don't jump in too soon!

Peter Schoenmann leaned over a rectangular hunk of plaster with a historic mural painted on it Friday morning in Berwyn. He ...

A tip for new rollers is to wrap them lightly with painter’s tape, then remove the tape to get rid of loose fibers. Foam ...

These you’ll need to coat in a barrier of plaster and animal glue—naked ... “Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350,” makes clear how astonishing it is that paint, of all things, became ...

In 1975, Annie Dillard won the Pulitzer Prize for her book Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, a poetic chronicling of her creek-side ...

First, check to see if your wall is made of drywall or plaster by knocking lightly on the wall. If it sounds hollow, it’s drywall. Not hollow? Probably plaster. Another test is to see how ...

A chat about a Washington show offering a radical new perspective on the history of sculpture, plus how the major Polish ...

Approximation is not a flaw, but a feature. Art has the power to index the mystical. Sugimoto’s photography of wax figures and plaster models shows how visibly unseen realms can be rendered by ...

SINGAPORE — The robots are taking over — they could be painting and plastering walls for about half the Build-To-Order (BTO) projects built from 2025, and soon, these machines could even be ...

who’s also an art conservator, positioned a vacuum near the blade and sucked up the debris. The goal is to shave away the heavy plaster, which used to be part of a wall in a Near West Side union ...