Sum of the Arts
Inspired by the Harper's Index, Sum of the Arts is a periodic tabulation of numbers floating around the art world and beyond.
Inspired by the Harper’s Index, Sum of the Arts is a periodic tabulation of numbers floating around the art world and beyond.
- Goldfish in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Astor Court Chinese garden when it opened in 1981 = 26, one for each workman, brought from their Suzhou home
- Years since Vincent van Gogh’s “Moulin d’Alphonse” painting, going on view this Friday at TEFAF Maastricht, was seen by the public = 105
- Stops on the Shakespeare’s First Folio 2016 tour from the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC = 52 (including all the states, DC, and Puerto Rico)
- Wikipedia articles on female artists added during the March 7 Art + Feminism Edit-a-thon = 334
- Days after his death architect Frei Otto was announced as the recipient of the Pritzer Prize = 1
- Mummies currently on special view at the British Museum = 8, spanning a range of 4,000 years
- Decades it took the wide-eyed and furry olinguito of South America to be described as a new species while on the shelves of the American Museum of Natural History = 9
- Masterworks formerly of the Corcoran Gallery, now on display at the National Gallery of Art which is their new steward = 29 paintings, 2 sculptures
- Weight of De Wain Valentine’s twin 1970s “Grey Column,” to be displayed as a pair for the first time as intended this June at David Zwirner Gallery = 3,500 pounds
- The 1958 Mark Rothko painting that is going to auction May 13 with an estimate between $30 and $50 million = “No. 36 (Black Stripe)”
