Dezeen promotion: after investigating the history and properties of alabaster stone, Barcelona-based Amarist Studio has created a set of designs that treat the material like a "moldable plastic ...

Its sand-colored concrete walls loom over Temple Street like an urban butte, and tons of marble, bronze and limestone gleam within. Yet, in the end, there’s no earthly element in the new Cathedral of ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — It’s often easier to appreciate the imagery in a great work of art than to understand exactly how it was made, and how an artist’s use of any specific material affected the creative ...

Learn how residue trapped inside a Xerxes-era alabaster jar revealed a long-overlooked tradition of opium in ancient Egypt. What were Egypt’s alabaster jars actually used for? Their stone and ...

The latest exhibition at the Princeton University Museum of Art is devoted to one of those odd, delicate mediums whose rise and fall from popularity seem to track a moral and political faultline in ...