Don’t build a plaster-of-paris Paris. Don’t ask a color-blind chintz merchant to design the costumes. Don’t let anybody say to Sophia Loren while she bats her glued-on lashes and swells her ...

Off the Wall: Preserving Your Plaster is planned for 6 p.m. Wednesday, part of Joslyn Castle’s and History Nebraska’s historic preservation series. Register at joslyncastle.com. While the ...

An artisan at work in the Plaster Cast Workshop of the GrandPalaisRmn in Saint-Denis, a suburb of Paris. The workshop was founded in 1794 to create casts of sculptures for the Louvre, and to ...