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# Sum of the Arts
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/sum-of-the-arts-25/
- Published: 2015-08-28T11:00:42.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:43:07.000Z
- Description: Years Botticelli fell out of fashion after his death in 1510 = 250
- 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)

![Sandro Botticelli, "Primavera" (1482), tempera (via Uffizi Gallery/Wikimedia)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2015/08/botticellipainting.jpg)

Sandro Botticelli, “Primavera” (1482), tempera (via Uffizi Gallery/Wikimedia)

[*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.*

- Years Botticelli [fell out of fashion](http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/27/us-art-botticelli-idUSKCN0QW23520150827?ref=hyperallergic.com) after his death in 1510 = **250**
- Percentage of the streets in Paris[ named for historic women](http://www.citylab.com/design/2015/08/the-streets-of-paris-renamed-for-women/402526/?ref=hyperallergic.com) \= **2.6**
- Seconds London’s Big Ben clock has been [running fast](http://artdaily.com/news/80982/The-bongs-are-wrong-on-London-s-Big-Ben--Mysteriously-running-fast-over-the-past-fortnight?ref=hyperallergic.com#.Vd9ZT7xVhHy) this month = **6**
- Percentage of the US coastline [covered in concrete](http://news.sciencemag.org/environment/2015/08/fourteen-percent-u-s-coastline-covered-concrete?ref=hyperallergic.com) \= **14**
- Number of abandoned baby carriages artist Nari Ward found on the streets, which he later [installed](http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/26/us-italy-arts-mother-idUSKCN0QV1D820150826?ref=hyperallergic.com) in an exhibition about motherhood at Milan’s Palazzo Reale = **280**
- Pounds of unsalted O-At-Ka Butter in the 2015 New York State Fair’s [crowning butter sculpture](http://www.syracuse.com/statefair/index.ssf/2015/08/and%5Fthe%5Fnys%5Ffair%5F2015%5Fbutter%5Fsculpture%5Fis.html?ref=hyperallergic.com), which includes the Statue of Liberty and Niagara Falls = **800**
- Number of messages in bottles thrown by a scientist into England’s North Sea between 1904 and 1906 = **1,020** (one of which was discovered [this month](http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/vacation-goer-spots-message-bottle-century-old-experiment-180956407/?ref=hyperallergic.com), the oldest message in a bottle ever found)
- Gallons of water[ in the on-stage river](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/27/arts/dance/for-pearl-a-4200-gallon-river-runs-through-the-koch-theater.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) for the dance-theater performance *Pearl* at Lincoln Center = **4,200**
- Number of people Olafur Eliasson estimates will cross his new five-platform [Cirkelbroen bridge](http://www.archdaily.com/772411/cirkelbroen-bridge-studio-olafur-eliasson?ref=hyperallergic.com) every day in Copenhagen = **5,000**
- Tons of copper ore [buried](http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2015/09/mes-aynak/bloch-text?ref=hyperallergic.com) beneath the ancient ruins of Mes Aynak in Afghanistan = **12,500,000**