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# Sum of the Arts
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/sum-of-the-arts-22/
- Published: 2015-08-07T11:00:16.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:43:10.000Z
- Description: Percentage of 1,300 art galleries surveyed last year whose annual revenue was under $200,000 = 55
- 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)

!["Fallen Astronaut" by artist Paul Van Hoeydonck, left on the Moon on August 1, 1971 (via NASA)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2015/08/fallenastronaut.jpg)

“Fallen Astronaut” by artist Paul Van Hoeydonck, left on the Moon on August 1, 1971 (via NASA)

*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.*

- Height in inches of an aluminum “Fallen Astronaut” by Belgian artist Paul Van Hoeydonck [left by the Apollo 15 crew](http://mentalfloss.com/uk/science/26266/the-7-weirdest-things-that-have-been-left-on-the-moon?ref=hyperallergic.com) on the moon = **3.3**
- Number of conservators[ who repainted a B-25J Mitchell bomber](http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/military-history/world-war-two/art533550-iwm-duxford-repaints-b-25J-mitchell-in-colours-of-a-bomber-flown-by-joseph-heller?ref=hyperallergic.com) at the Imperial War Museum Duxford in the colors flown by Joseph Heller, author of *Catch-22* \= **3**
- Number of books Salvador Dalí [published in his lifetime](http://penguinrandomhouse.ca/hazlitt/feature/page-four-dali-journal?ref=hyperallergic.com) \= **4**
- Layers of material in Neil Armstrong’s lunar spacesuit, for which the Smithsonian’s National Art and Space Museum [raised](http://www.history.com/news/kickstarter-funds-neil-armstrong-spacesuit-repair?ref=hyperallergic.com) conservation funds on Kickstarter = **12**
- Percentage of 1,300 art galleries [surveyed last year](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-30/why-do-so-many-art-galleries-lose-money-?ref=hyperallergic.com) whose annual revenue was under $200,000 = **55**
- Percentage of anesthesiologists [polled in 1997](http://www.psmag.com/health-and-behavior/mistaking-the-beat-for-a-heartbeat-in-the-operating-room?ref=hyperallergic.com) who reported the playing of music in their operating rooms = **72**
- Age in years of [a bonsai tree](http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/the-390-year-old-tree-that-survived-an-atomic-bomb/2015/08/02/3f824dae-3945-11e5-8e98-115a3cf7d7ae%5Fstory.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) that survived the bombing of Hiroshima and is currently on view at the National Arboretum in Washington, DC = **390**
- Number of sculptures [made by Chares of Lindos](http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/aug/01/power-and-pathos-greece-hellenistic-bronze-sculpture-getty-center?ref=hyperallergic.com), ancient Greek artist famed for creating one of the Wonders of the Ancient World, the Colossus of Rhodes (none of his works have survived) = **1,500**
- People in the United States [without an internet connection](http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/07/america-offline/399830/?ref=hyperallergic.com) \= **47,000,000**