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# Sum of the Arts
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/sum-of-the-arts-21/
- Published: 2015-07-31T10:58:11.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:43:11.000Z
- Description: Height (in feet) of the rogue wave depicted in Katsushika Hokusai's famed "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" (c.1830–32) = 32–39
- 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)

![Library card given this month to Yoda the Owl from the University of Bath, in thanks for keeping the intrusive seagull population at bay (via University of Bath)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2015/07/yodatheowl.jpg)

Library card given this month to Yoda the Owl from the University of Bath, in thanks for keeping the intrusive seagull population at bay (via University of Bath)

*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 owls in the world with [university library cards](http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/jul/29/overdue-recognition-owl-issued-library-card-after-solving-universitys-gull-woes?ref=hyperallergic.com) \= **1**
- Number of female architects in the United States in 1890, [according to the census](http://curbed.com/archives/2015/07/29/mary-colter-architect.php?ref=hyperallergic.com) \= **22**
- Height (in feet) [of the rogue wave](http://mentalfloss.com/article/66591/15-things-you-might-not-know-about-great-wave-kanagawa?ref=hyperallergic.com) depicted in Katsushika Hokusai’s famed “The Great Wave off Kanagawa” (c.1830–32) = **32–39**
- Number of skeleton specimens at the Grant Museum of Zoology in London whose bones [will be restored](http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jul/27/grant-museums-quagga-skeleton-restored-with-3d-printed-leg?ref=hyperallergic.com) with 3D printing = **39**
- Weight in tons of the ongoing [AIDS Quilt memorial](http://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/aids-quilt-memorial?ref=hyperallergic.com) \= **54**
- Number of photographs a day the Himawari-8 weather satellite [takes of Earth](http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/07/10/science/An-Image-of-Earth-Every-Ten-Minutes.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) from 22,000 miles up = **144**
- Number of Pachuca, Mexico, homes [painted by local street artists](http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/07/urban-mural-palmitas-mexico/?ref=hyperallergic.com) to create a 20,000-square-meter mural = **209**
- Number of used eyeglass lenses [in a kinetic sculpture](http://www.junk-culture.com/2015/07/artists-create-shimmering-kinetic.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) by artists Caitlind r.c. Brown and Wayne Garrett installed at the Pera Museum in Istanbul = **14,000**
- Number of dahlias 60 volunteers [will transform into a portrait of Vincent van Gogh](http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/07/28/visit-to-van-goghs-grave-part-of-events-for-125th-anniversary-of-his-death/?%5Fr=0&ref=hyperallergic.com) at the Museumplein in Amsterdam to mark the 125th anniversary of the artist’s death = **50,000**
- Estimated size in gigabytes the Museum of Modern Art’s digital collection [will reach by 2025](http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-do-you-back-up-the-museum-of-modern-art?ref=hyperallergic.com) \= **1,200,000**