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# Sum of the Arts
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/sum-of-the-arts-18/
- Published: 2015-07-10T11:00:10.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:43:14.000Z
- Description: Photographs taken by Alice's Adventures in Wonderland author Lewis Caroll in his lifetime = 3,000
- 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)

![The Crawick Multiverse, with the mounds symbolizing galaxies (photo by Charles Jencks, courtesy Crawick Multiverse)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2015/07/crawickmultiverse.jpg)

The Crawick Multiverse, with the mounds symbolizing galaxies (photo by Charles Jencks, courtesy Crawick Multiverse)

*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 boulders lining triangular mounds in land artist Charles Jenck’s “[Crawick Multiverse](http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/conservation/157550/?ref=hyperallergic.com)” 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](http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/museums/la-et-cm-broad-museum-20150706-story.html?ref=hyperallergic.com#page=1) in Los Angeles = **5**
- Percentage more that [people who doodle are able to recall mundane information](http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/07/doodling-for-cognitive-benefits/398027/?ref=hyperallergic.com) than those who don’t = **29**
- Preserved plant specimen collections in North America [closed since 1997](http://www.nature.com/news/plant-collections-left-in-the-cold-by-cuts-1.17875?ref=hyperallergic.com) (with about 600 still open) = **100**
- Bottles of wine sculpted by artist Itamar Gilboa in his project [to recreate](http://www.wired.com/2015/07/artist-sculpted-everything-ate-year/?ref=hyperallergic.com) 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](http://curbed.com/archives/2015/07/08/answers-in-genesis-ark-encounter.php?ref=hyperallergic.com) of Noah’s Ark = **626**
- Photographs taken by *Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland* (1865) author Lewis Caroll [in his lifetime](http://www.livescience.com/51438-lewis-carroll-wonderland.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) \= **3,000**
- Height in miles from which NASA’s Ralph camera [will photograph Pluto](http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/deep-space/news/a16350/new-horizons-ralph-camera-pluto/?ref=hyperallergic.com) in color = **6,231**
- Cost (in euros) [to fix up](http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/07/06/us-eurozone-crisis-sculpture-idUKKCN0PG1UA20150706?ref=hyperallergic.com) 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](http://www.dezeen.com/2015/07/07/rogers-stirk-harbour-partners-conservation-storage-facility-musee-du-louvre-lievin-paris-france/?ref=hyperallergic.com) \= **250,000**