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# Sum of the Arts
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/sum-of-the-arts-20/
- Published: 2015-07-24T11:01:02.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:43:12.000Z
- Description: Number of Monets purchased by Paul Durand-Ruel over the four decades the art dealer promoted Impressionism = 1,000
- 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)

![Pierre Huyghe, "Untilled (Liegender Frauenakt) [Reclining female nude]" (2012), concrete with beehive structure, wax, and live bee colony (courtesy the Museum of Modern Art, © 2015 Pierre Huyghe, photo by Jonathan Muzikar)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2015/07/momabees.jpg)

Pierre Huyghe, “Untilled (Liegender Frauenakt) \[Reclining female nude\]” (2012), concrete with beehive structure, wax, and live bee colony (courtesy the Museum of Modern Art, © 2015 Pierre Huyghe, photo by Jonathan Muzikar)

*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 times a week the bees swarming Pierre Huyghe’s “Untilled” in the Museum of Modern Art sculpture garden [are inspected ](http://www.moma.org/explore/inside%5Fout/2015/07/17/close-up-on-pierre-huyghes-untilled-and-a-qa-with-beekeeper-andrew-cote/?ref=hyperallergic.com)by professional beekeepers = **14**
- Weight in tons of a life-size elephant statue made of ivory tusks, installed as [an anti-poaching message](http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2015/07/16/life-size-ivory-elephant-sculpture-unveiled-in-botswana/?utm%5Fsource=Twitter&utm%5Fmedium=Social&utm%5Fcontent=link%5Ftwex20150722voices-ivorysculpture&utm%5Fcampaign=Content&sf11223402=1) at the Botswana airport = **2.5**
- Number of months the 555-foot Washington Monument was [the tallest structure in the world](http://mentalfloss.com/article/66045/15-things-you-might-not-know-about-washington-monument?ref=hyperallergic.com) when it was first built, before being surpassed by the Eiffel Tower = **6**
- Number of medieval shoes[ excavated in Oxford](http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology/art532258-archaeologists-find-dozens-of-medieval-shoes-in-good-condition-at-greyfriars-dig-in-oxford?ref=hyperallergic.com) \= **50**
- Recommended sandcastle height in centimeters [according to architect Renzo Piano](http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/jul/14/sandcastle-beach-renzo-piano-shard-architect-build?ref=hyperallergic.com) \= **60** (\~23″)
- Minutes the 355-foot-long oculus in the Santiago Calatrava-designed World Trade Center Transportation Hub [will open each September 11](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/20/nyregion/retractable-skylight-in-world-trade-center-oculus-takes-final-form.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) \= **102**
- Number of 19th-century cast bones in the skeleton of [Dippy the diplodocus](https://hyperallergic.com/a-blue-whale-dethrones-a-dinosaur-as-natural-history-museums-embrace-their-research-side/), which for the first time in 35 years [will be removed](http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/jul/21/natural-history-museums-dippy-dinosaur-holiday?CMP=twt%5Fgu&ref=hyperallergic.com) from public display at London’s Natural History Museum = **292**
- Number of Monets [purchased by Paul Durand-Ruel](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/24/arts/design/paul-durand-ruel-the-paris-dealer-who-put-impressionism-on-the-map.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) over the four decades the art dealer promoted Impressionism = **1,000**
- Year in which carbon dating of artifacts [may not be reliable](http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/07/global-warming-carbon-dating/399398/?ref=hyperallergic.com) due to too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere = **2030**
- Number of visitors [who attended](http://wwd.com/fashion-news/fashion-scoops/china-through-the-looking-glass-nearing-500000-visitors-10190483/?ref=hyperallergic.com) the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s [*China: Through the Looking Glass*](https://hyperallergic.com/fantasy-and-utopia-in-the-metropolitan-museums-chinese-fashion-show/) from its opening on May 7 to July 21 = **500,000** (catching up with the **661,509** visitors to 2011’s [*Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty*](http://hyperallergic.com/25662/alexander-mcqueen-savage-beauty/))