Sum of the Arts
Photographs taken by Alice's Adventures in Wonderland author Lewis Caroll in his lifetime = 3,000
Inspired by the Harper’s Index, Sum of the Arts is a periodic tabulation of numbers floating around the art world and beyond.
- Number of boulders lining triangular mounds in land artist Charles Jenck’s “Crawick Multiverse” transformation of a 55 acre open-cast coal mine in Scotland = 2,000
- Number of crates required to move Takashi Murakami’s 82-foot long painting into the new Broad museum in Los Angeles = 5
- Percentage more that people who doodle are able to recall mundane information than those who don’t = 29
- Preserved plant specimen collections in North America closed since 1997 (with about 600 still open) = 100
- Bottles of wine sculpted by artist Itamar Gilboa in his project to recreate all he ate and drank for a year in white plaster = 215
- Miles of wood a creationist group is using to build a $29.5 million replica of Noah’s Ark = 626
- Photographs taken by Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) author Lewis Caroll in his lifetime = 3,000
- Height in miles from which NASA’s Ralph camera will photograph Pluto in color = 6,231
- Cost (in euros) to fix up a 46-foot statue of the euro symbol in Frankfurt = 60,000
- Number of artworks from the Louvre that will be kept at the Paris museum’s new storage facility = 250,000
