papier mache
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On another occasion, he “foraged,” as he put it, a herd of shopping carts, spray-painted them gold and filled them with ads for fake products and papier-mâché pills.
From New York Times
April 1930 In the Cocoanut Grove at the Ambassador Hotel, a swanky and exotic celebrity haunt, among papier-mache palm trees and monkey motifs.
From Los Angeles Times
On the gallery floor, Oakland-based Michael Diamond’s life-size sculptures of birds gather in a flock; a single papier-mâché pigeon nestles in the ceiling rafters.
From Los Angeles Times
Mr. Archer was there with his young son, who was working on a papier-mâché model of the White House for his class.
From New York Times
By this point, Elso was teaching — the activist artist Tania Bruguera was one of his students — and making art on an installation scale from an ever-widening group of media: paint, clay, thread, twigs, papier-mâché, dried leaves, sand, rainwater.
From New York Times
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