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  • Coastal Desk
    Making Faces
    When local authorities find a decomposed body they can’t identify, what do they do?Well, they send it to the LSU FACES Laboratory.“It goes through a…
  • Sculpture teacher Kim Bernadas works with a plastic surgery student on her clay bust.
    Health
    Sculpture in Scrubs
    Tegan Wendland
    Sculpture class on a recent Wednesday night at the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts looked a bit like an operating room. The bright white studio was…
  • Viewers of Kara Walker's <em>A Subtlety</em> described the sculpture as "beautiful" and "the American sphinx." Another said, "She is so exposed and she's so vulnerable, but at the same time she has some grace and majesticness that is completely unapproachable."
    Culture
    Artist Kara Walker Draws Us Into Bitter History With Something Sweet
    Audie Cornish
    Walker's latest project is a series of sugar sculptures housed in a former sugar refinery. From far away the works look charming, but up close they tell the ugly story of the Caribbean slave trade.