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# Sum of the Arts
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/sum-of-the-arts-2/
- Published: 2015-03-20T18:17:39.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:43:31.000Z
- Description: Display cases for the 300 artifacts in Vodou: Sacred Powers of Haiti at the Field Museum in Chicago = 0 (to respect the belief that Vodou objects should not be encased)
- 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)

![Vodou "fighting spirits" on view at the Field Museum's 'Vodou: Sacred Powers of Haiti' (© Musée d’ethnographie de Genève, Photo: Johnathan Watts)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2015/03/voudoufieldmuseum.jpg)

Vodou “fighting spirits” on view in the Field Museum’s ‘Vodou: Sacred Powers of Haiti’ (© Musée d’ethnographie de Genève, photo by Johnathan Watts)

*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.*

- Display cases for the 300 artifacts in [*Vodou: Sacred Powers of Haiti* ](http://www.fieldmuseum.org/at-the-field/exhibitions/vodou-sacred-powers-haiti?ref=hyperallergic.com)at the Field Museum in Chicago = **0** (to respect the belief that Vodou objects [should not be encased](http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/museums/ct-vodou-sacred-field-museum-story.html?ref=hyperallergic.com#page=1))
- Acres at the Brooklyn Museum and Brooklyn Botanic Garden [given over to growing vegetables](http://www.amny.com/lifestyle/secrets-of-the-brooklyn-museum-1.9834049?ref=hyperallergic.com) in the World War II [Victory Gardens](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory%5Fgarden?ref=hyperallergic.com) effort = **3**
- Frames [kept empty](http://www.history.com/news/historys-biggest-art-heist-remains-unsolved-25-years-later?ref=hyperallergic.com) as a reminder of the art stolen and never recovered from the 1990 [Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist](http://www.gardnermuseum.org/resources/theft?ref=hyperallergic.com) \= **4**
- Masks a powerful Tlingit shaman [possessed on average](http://rubinmuseum.org/blog/becoming-another-masks-quiz-rubin-museum?ref=hyperallergic.com), like the one in the Rubin Museum of Art’s new [*Becoming Another: The Power of Masks*](http://rubinmuseum.org/events/exhibitions/becoming-another?ref=hyperallergic.com) \= **8**
- Researchers involved in [finding the lost tomb](http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-31852032?ref=hyperallergic.com) of *Don Quixote* author Miguel de Cervantes in a forgotten crypt in a Madrid convent = **30**
- Years artist Michael Heizer has worked on “[City](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City%5F%28artwork%29?ref=hyperallergic.com),” a massive earth art piece in the Basin and Range of Nevada that’s [threatened by development](https://hyperallergic.com/museums-join-campaign-to-preserve-land-art-opus/) \= **43**
- Age of James McNeill Whistler’s mother in his famed 1871 portrait of her, which will [tour from the Musée d’Orsay](http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/theater-art/2015/03/19/whistler-mother-visit-clark-art-museum-july/dstm9bFU8xXgyF6c46QLAJ/story.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) to the Clark Art Institute = **67**
- Ultrasound speakers in Flying Object’s [upcoming exhibition](http://www.tate.org.uk/about/projects/ik-prize?ref=hyperallergic.com) at Tate Britain, where [visitors can “touch” the art](http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/03/the-new-science-of-experiencing-an-art-museum/388205/?ref=hyperallergic.com) through localized sound waves = **256**
- Crime artifacts from the London Metropolitan Police’s secret “[Black Museum](https://hyperallergic.com/secret-london-crime-museum-may-open-for-first-time-in-150-years/)” that will [go on view to the public](http://londonist.com/2015/03/grisly-secrets-of-the-black-museum-to-go-on-public-display-for-first-time.php?ref=hyperallergic.com) for the first time this October = **500**
- People who [signed an online petition](http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/17/row-plans-spanish-amphitheatre-tennis-court?ref=hyperallergic.com) against using the UNESCO-listed 8 BCE Roman amphitheater in Mérida, Spain, for a [padel tennis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padel%5F%28sport%29?ref=hyperallergic.com) competition = **100,000**