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# Sum of the Arts
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/sum-of-the-arts-19/
- Published: 2015-07-17T11:00:19.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:43:13.000Z
- Description: Number of sites on the Unesco World Heritage "Danger List" after the recent addition of places in Iraq and Yemen = 48
- 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)

![A busy night at the Museum of Modern Art in 2011 (photo by Ray Smith, via Flickr)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2015/07/momanight.jpg)

A busy night at the Museum of Modern Art in 2011 (photo by Ray Smith, via Flickr)

*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.*

- Decibel reading of sound [recorded in the lobby of the Museum of Modern Art](http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20150713/ARTS/150719964/whats-the-loudest-art-museum-in-new-york?ref=hyperallergic.com), which was found to be the loudest of all of New York City’s top art museums = **77.1** (compared to **63.6** in the lobby of the Frick Collection)
- Years [to restore](http://patch.com/new-jersey/newbrunswick/giant-crab-display-comes-back-rutgers-geology-museum?ref=hyperallergic.com) an 11-foot-wide giant crab in the Rutgers Geology Museum gifted by Japan in the 1890s = **3**
- Watts of electricity used by the Ralph camera as i[t photographed Pluto](http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/07/the-camera-behind-the-new-horizons-pluto-photos-ralph/398549/?single%5Fpage=true&ref=hyperallergic.com) on board New Horizons = **7**
- Number of weavers from around the world who recreated the [lost “Hunt of the Unicorn” tapestries](http://www.historyextra.com/article/culture/james-v-lost-tapestries-recreated-stirling-castle?ref=hyperallergic.com) over 14 years for Stirling Castle in Scotland = **18**
- Number of sites on the [Unesco World Heritage “Danger List](http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/conservation/157796/?ref=hyperallergic.com)” after the recent addition of places in Iraq and Yemen = **48**
- Millions of years ago [that trilobites thrived](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/13/nyregion/new-york-states-paleontologist-seeks-to-bring-prehistoric-era-to-life.html?smid=tw-nytmetro&ref=hyperallergic.com) in what’s now New York state = **252**
- Number of bookends made from author [Ray Bradbury’s Los Angeles house](http://laist.com/2015/07/08/cool%5Fray%5Fbradburys%5Flos%5Fangeles%5Fhome.php?ref=hyperallergic.com), which was demolished by architect Thom Mayne = **451**
- Number of standard color chips [created by Pantone](http://nautil.us/issue/26/color/how-pantone-colors-your-world?ref=hyperallergic.com) since 1963 = **10,000**
- Number of boxes needed to contain [a full ancient Roman fresco](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/11733670/Ancient-Roman-frescos-worthy-of-Pompeii-found-in-southern-France.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) excavated in Arles = **12,000**
- Number of people that would be required to walk on piezoelectric pavement at London’s Battersea Power Station in order to power Tesla coils atop the chimneys in a [proposed design by architect Bjarke Ingels](http://www.dezeen.com/2015/07/14/bjarke-ingels-could-turn-battersea-power-station-chimneys-into-giant-tesla-coils/?ref=hyperallergic.com) \= **50,000**
- Number of combinations possible with the German Enigma coding machine, one of which [was auctioned](http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/rare-enigma-machine-sells-auction-232-000-n391776?ref=hyperallergic.com) this month at Sotheby’s = **159,000,000,000,000**