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# Sum of the Arts
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/sum-of-the-arts-11/
- Published: 2015-05-22T11:00:48.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:43:22.000Z
- Description: Number of figures Edward Hopper posed for in his 1942 painting "Nighthawks" = 2
- 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)

![Darren Waterston, "Filthy Lucre" (2013-14), alternate reality verison of James McNeill Whistler's Peacock Room where everything is wrecked (photo by John Tsantes, Freer and Sackler Galleries of Art)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2015/05/filthylucre02.jpg)

Darren Waterston, “Filthy Lucre” (2013-14), an alternate reality installation of James McNeill Whistler’s Peacock Room where everything is wrecked (photo by John Tsantes, Freer & Sackler Galleries of Art)

*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.*

- The number of vases artist Darren Waterston painted and then [bashed with a hammer](http://www.washingtonpost.com/express/wp/2015/05/14/by-destroying-whistlers-peacock-room-artist-darren-waterston-forged-new-friendships/?ref=hyperallergic.com) for his “Filthy Lucre” installation at the Freer and Sackler Galleries of Art, a wrecked version of their James McNeill Whistler [Peacock Room](http://www.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/current/peacockRoom/pano.asp?ref=hyperallergic.com) \= **250**
- Percentage of its GDP Italy, where [bad air conditioning](https://hyperallergic.com/lack-of-air-conditioning-warps-raphael-painting-at-rome-museum/) continues to endanger artistic masterpieces, [spends on culture](http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/italys-cultural-heritage-at-risk-amid-neglectand-bad-management--with-private-sponsors-brought-in-to-help-protect-iconic-landmarks-10256659.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) \= **0.2** (France, in comparison, spends **1** percent)
- The weight (in tons) of the vault door that will [guard the Smithsonian Institution’s new Gallery of Numismatics](http://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/numismatics-vault-door?ref=hyperallergic.com), opening July 1 = **1.5**
- Number of figures Edward Hopper[ posed for](http://mentalfloss.com/article/63967/15-things-you-might-not-know-about-nighthawks?ref=hyperallergic.com) in his 1942 painting “Nighthawks” = **2**
- Number of prisoners who helped embroider a [roughly 43-foot fiber art version](http://londonist.com/2015/05/someones-embroidered-magna-cartas-wikipedia-page.php?ref=hyperallergic.com) of the Magna Carta’s Wikipedia page, on view at the British Library = **36**
- Damaged public art [cared for](http://artdaily.com/news/78674/Vandalized-statues-from-parks--gardens-and-public-spaces-restored-at-Argentine--hospital--?ref=hyperallergic.com#.VV4MwlVVhHz) in the Buenos Aires sculpture “hospital” at a given time = **100**
- Number of Biblical figures in the stained glass windows of Sainte-Chapelle in Paris, all of which were cleaned during a [seven-year restoration project](http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/20/sainte-chapelle-paris-stained-glass-window-restoration-completed?ref=hyperallergic.com) \= **1,130**
- Number of Bauhaus buildings in Tel Aviv, many of which will be restored thanks to a [$3.2 million](http://www.architecturaldigest.com/blogs/daily/2015/05/germany-funds-restoration-of-tel-aviv-white-city-bauhaus-district?ref=hyperallergic.com) grant from Germany = **4,000**
- Fluid ounces of coffee [poured last week at Christie’s](http://www.artnews.com/2015/05/18/christies-also-served-a-ridiculous-amount-of-coffee-last-week/?ref=hyperallergic.com) during the course of its record-breaking auctions = **25,000**
- Number of Dutch schoolchildren [who visited Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum](http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/museums/155927/?ref=hyperallergic.com) and its Rembrandt “The Night Watch” last year = **400,000**