“As a segment of the marble business, sculpture is dwarfed by the industrial side, which slices slabs by the millions of tons each year. But fine art sculpture is big business too, worth billions of dollars a year. The first robot sculptor appeared in Carrara in 2005. ‘We Don’t Need Another Michelangelo: In Italy, It’s Robots’ Turn to Sculpt,’ proclaims the newspaper headline he reproduced from a New York Times piece on his company. The other man is a bluff Midwesterner named Jim Durham… He was the biggest producer of fine art stone sculpture in America, and now, with his Franco Cervietti purchase, the world.”From Bloomberg.