In 1497, an ambitious 22-year-old hiked up to the quarries above the Italian town of Carrara looking for a perfect block of marble. He searched for months until he found it. His name was ...

Explore the unique world of John Lopez, who creates lifelike sculptures from scrap metal.

Brooklynites are gawking at one of the borough’s newest residents: an 18-foot-tall metal sculpture of the 1980s comic-book character “Rappin’ Max Robot.” The mammoth piece of public art ...

Now Italian company Robotor is using robots to do the job — and at a fraction of the time it would have taken Michelangelo. Robots have upended the sculpture ... roils the art world, some ...

Rappin’ Max Robot epitomizes hip-hop’s evolution — manifesting in forms from breaking to comic books, and now as this monumental metal sculpture ... shared language of art and hip-hop across cities ...