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# Sum of the Arts
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/sum-of-the-arts-10/
- Published: 2015-05-15T11:01:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:43:23.000Z
- Description: In a survey of 150 US art museums, fraction of directors now aged over 60 = 1/3
- Author: Allison Meier
- Tags: Art, Sum of the Arts, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:08 (2014, 2015, part 2)

![Bridge made of 20,000 sheets of paper by artist Steve Messam, installed in the Lake District National Park in Cumbria, UK (© Steve Messam)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2015/05/stevemessambridge.jpg)

Bridge made of 20,000 sheets of paper by artist Steve Messam, installed in the Lake District National Park in Cumbria, UK (© Steve Messam)

*Inspired by the* [*Harper’s Index*](http://harpers.org/departments/harpers-index/?ref=hyperallergic.com)*,* [*Sum of the Arts*](http://hyperallergic.com/tag/sum-of-the-arts/) *is a periodic tabulation of numbers floating around the art world and beyond.*

- Sheets of red paper[ held together by tension](http://www.designboom.com/art/steve-messam-paper-bridge-cumbria-uk-05-13-2015/?ref=hyperallergic.com) in British artist Steve Messam’s weight-bearing foot bridge = **20,000**
- In a survey of 150 US art museums, fraction of directors [now aged over 60](http://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21650523-more-third-american-art-museum-directors-are-retirement-age-those-charge?ref=hyperallergic.com) \= **1/3**
- Percentage of his net worth casino billionaire Steven Wynn bid on Picasso’s “[Les Femmes d’Alger](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/14/upshot/the-179-million-picasso-that-explains-global-inequality.html?ref=hyperallergic.com)” in this week’s record-breaking auction (he didn’t win) = **3.7** (or **$125 million**)
- Yoshino cherry trees donated by the Japanese government in 1912 [that grow along the Central Park Reservoir](http://www.nycgovparks.org/facilities/great-trees?id=42&ref=hyperallergic.com) just outside the Guggenheim Museum = **35**
- Years the first underwater tunnel in the world, which will [open as a performance venue](http://www.dezeen.com/2015/04/21/isambard-kingdom-brunel-first-project-tunnel-shaft-london-underground-venue-rotherhithe/?ref=hyperallergic.com) beneath the Brunel Museum in England, has been closed to the public = **150**
- Square feet a 1955 Hans Hofmann mosaic covers with half a million tiles at [711 Third Avenue in Manhattan](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/14/nyregion/a-connecticut-exhibit-highlights-the-murals-of-hans-hofmann.html?ref=topics) \= **1,200**
- Miles an 18-ton rock dug out of the Mojave Desert [traveled for Michael Heizer’s exhibition](http://www.gagosian.com/exhibitions/michael-heizer--may-09-2015?ref=hyperallergic.com) at Gagosian Gallery in New York = **2,500**
- Maximum number of daily visitors Italy’s culture ministry [will allow in the historical site of Pompeii](http://www.ansa.it/english/news/lifestyle/arts/2015/05/11/pompeii-limits-visitor-numbers%5Ff8234c68-dbd1-4509-9394-dc27ff003ecd.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) for its free Sundays = **15,000** (there were **35,000** on May 3)
- Award in American dollars [the Gardner Museum in Boston just announced](http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/05/12/gardner-museum-offers-new-reward-for-item-taken-in-1990-heist/?smid=nytimesarts&ref=hyperallergic.com) for the return of a 10-inch gilded eagle that was stolen in the infamous 1990 theft = **100,000**
- Knots tied in the 100 miles of rope [stretching over Boston](http://artery.wbur.org/2015/05/05/janet-echelman-rose-kennedy-greenway?ref=hyperallergic.com) as part of Janet Echelman’s public art installation = **500,000**