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# Sum of the Arts
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/sum-of-the-arts-12/
- Published: 2015-05-29T14:01:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:43:21.000Z
- Description: Number of Water Lilies paintings destroyed by Monet just before a 1908 exhibition = 15
- 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)

![Alexander Calder and his BMW 3.0 CSL Art Car from 1975 (© BMW AG)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2015/05/alexandercalderbmw.jpg)

Alexander Calder and his BMW 3.0 CSL Art Car from 1975 (© BMW AG)

*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.*

- Number of hours the Alexander Calder-designed [BMW car raced](http://www.wired.com/2015/05/11-bmws-famous-artists-turned-masterpieces/?ref=hyperallergic.com) before it was permanently retired due to a damaged driveshaft = **7**
- Average number of artworks bought by Eli and Edythe Broad [a week](http://www.wsj.com/articles/eli-and-edythe-broad-build-a-museum-for-their-art-collection-1432648768?ref=hyperallergic.com) \= **1**
- Number of *Water Lilies* paintings [destroyed](http://mentalfloss.com/article/63929/15-things-you-might-not-know-about-monets-water-lilies?ref=hyperallergic.com) by Monet just before a 1908 exhibition = **15**
- Number of local animal species in Cape Town that are [drawn with reflective tape](http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150527-when-art-illuminates-nature?ref=hyperallergic.com) as part of Bryan Little’s [*The Endemic Project*](https://www.facebook.com/theEndemicProject)\= **16**
- Countries the United States has returned looted artifacts to [since 2007](http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/05/27/the-case-of-italy-s-stolen-1-800-year-old-sarcophagus-lid.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) \= **30**
- Number of skull fragments used to [reconstruct](http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/05/27/410122685/scientists-discover-evidence-of-a-435-000-year-old-murder?ref=hyperallergic.com) the forensic remains of a 435,000,000-year-old murder victim = **50**
- Number of motorized seesaws [installed in a deconsecrated church](http://www.dezeen.com/2015/05/27/zimoun-installation-motorised-wooden-seesaws-klangraum-krems-church-austria/?ref=hyperallergic.com) by Swiss artist [Zimoun](https://hyperallergic.com/kinetic-energy-transforms-humble-materials-into-minimalist-drums/) \= **150**
- Number of flowers that [filled an abandoned house in Detroit](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/14/abandoned-house-flowers-detroit-photos%5Fn%5F7235442.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) this month as part of a temporary art installation = **4,000**
- Pounds of debris the new Whitney Museum in New York can sustain with its high-tech [flood-mitigation system](http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/05/new-whitney-hurricane-sandy-climate-change/394100/?ref=hyperallergic.com) \= **6,750**
- Age (in years) of an ancient fossilized fish [discovered by a board member of the Creation Museum](http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/05/28/whoops-a-creationist-museum-supporter-stumbled-upon-a-major-fossil-find/?postshare=2361432842583071&ref=hyperallergic.com) (where the Earth is declared to be only 6,000 years old) = **60,000,000**