CulturalDC, a non-profit organization that had commissioned the 6-foot statue, in an update on their website, said that the wax sculpture by artist Sandy Williams IV was "intended to be burnt like ...

The most recent wax rendition of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson fulfills its main purpose of resembling the actor … at least, sort of. The sculpture commissioned by the Grévin Museum in Paris is ...

Wax Abe Lincoln, it turns out ... unless it got to 140 degrees, wouldn’t melt the sculpture,” Williams said. “But yeah, I’m not sure that the company ever tried just putting a block ...

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He let the heat get to his head. A wax sculpture of Abraham Lincoln sitting outside of a Washington D.C. elementary school is headless after it began melting during a punishing heatwave that had ...

Lil Wayne and The Rock are right: Wax museums are frustratingly bad at depicting Black celebrities Recently, the rapper and actor's wax likenesses went viral in a bad way—both figures featured ...