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# Sum of the Arts
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/sum-of-the-arts-17/
- Published: 2015-07-03T11:00:38.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:43:15.000Z
- Description: Est. amount (in US$) collectors spent at contemporary, modern, postwar, and Impressionist art auction in first 6 mo. of 2015 = 3,700,000,000
- 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)

![Replica of L'Hermione docked at the South Street Seaport after a 31-day journey on the Atlantic (photo by the author for Hyperallergic)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2015/07/lhermionesoutstreet.jpg)

Replica of L’Hermione docked at New York City’s South Street Seaport after a 31-day journey on the Atlantic (photo by the author for Hyperallergic)

*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.*

- Days a replica of the 18th-century ship which brought the Marquis de Lafayette to the American Revolution, l’Hermione, [took to travel](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/03/arts/the-hermione-sails-into-new-york-harbor-cannons-blazing.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) from France to the United States = **31**
- Number of Byzantine ivory works from the British Museum [denied entry to the United States](http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/museums/157350/?ref=hyperallergic.com) by the US Fish and Wildlife Service = **6**
- Years steel cables holding up Detroit’s 5,000-pound sculpture of Joe Louis’s fist can survive before [requiring replacement](http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/06/24/us/ap-us-joe-louis-fist.html?%5Fr=1&ref=hyperallergic.com) due to stretching = **10**
- Hours to 3D print a hominid skull replica for the Smithsonian Institution’s 2017 traveling exhibition [*Exploring Human Origins*](http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/07/art-forgery/395282/?ref=hyperallergic.com) \= **12**
- Number of museums that exhibited Christian Marclay’s “[The Clock](http://www.theartnewspaper.com/features/157678/?ref=hyperallergic.com)” over the past five years = **20**
- Sculptures [conserved by the Central Park Conservancy](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/02/nyregion/restoring-a-lackluster-worlds-fair-sculpture-for-legacys-sake.html?ref=hyperallergic.com), which will unveil its most recent, John Quincy Adams Ward’s “[The Pilgrim](http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/central-park/monuments/1184?ref=hyperallergic.com)” (1885), this month = **40**
- Number of demerits accumulated by artist [James McNeill Whistler](http://www.wsj.com/articles/why-was-whistlers-mom-such-a-grump-1435851300?ref=hyperallergic.com) when he was expelled by Robert E. Lee from West Point in 1854 = **240**
- Temperatures in celsius at which geologist Jeff Karson and sculptor Bob Wysocki [pour melted basalt rock](http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/better-understand-lava-artist-and-scientist-make-their-own-180955795/?ref=hyperallergic.com) to replicate a lava flow = **1,100** to **1,1350**
- Square footage of exhibition space [planned for the Louvre Abu Dhabi](http://www.artnews.com/2015/06/27/charting-the-museum-boom/?ref=hyperallergic.com), which pushed back its opening to 2016 = **99,000** (compared to **63,000** at the new Whitney Museum of American Art)
- Estimated amount (in US dollars) [art collectors spent](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-24/what-227-million-in-impressionist-and-modern-art-sold-at-auction-looks-like?ref=hyperallergic.com) at auction on Contemporary, Modern, Postwar, and Impressionist art in the first six months of 2015 = **3,700,000,000**