Manhattan’s American Museum of Natural History put on a little show this week to make the weariest museum trudger smile: eight plaster statuettes of fabled animals. Among them were Pegasus sitting ...

Q: We recently purchased a 1926 colonial house with mostly horsehair plaster walls. This is my first experience with plaster walls, and I’m afraid they are going to crumble when I hang artwork, etc.

Q: After finally getting someone to do a minor kitchen remodel, which was not very carefully done, I have now gotten the living room painted and am ready to hang pictures. We did see how thick the ...