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# Sum of the Arts
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/sum-of-the-arts-26/
- Published: 2015-09-18T11:00:27.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:43:04.000Z
- Description: Number of works by Man Ray stored in a Long Island auto body shop managed by his nephews = 4,500
- Author: Allison Meier
- Tags: Art, Sum of the Arts, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:13 (2014, 2015, part 3)

![Man Ray, "Seguidilla" (1919), airbrushed gouache, pen & ink, pencil, and colored pencil on paperboard (via Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden/Wikimedia)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2015/09/manray191.jpg)

Man Ray, “Seguidilla” (1919), airbrushed gouache, pen & ink, pencil, and colored pencil on paperboard (via Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden/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.*

- Number of works by Man Ray [stored in a Long Island auto body shop](https://medium.com/vantage/body-parts-83b95ac3a66c?ref=hyperallergic.com) managed by his nephews = **4,500**
- Number of times a 1908 Igor Stravinsky dirge was performed before [its rediscovery](http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/09/08/long-lost-stravinsky-work-rediscovered/?ref=hyperallergic.com) this year at the St. Petersburg Conservatory = **1**
- Number of minutes you would save if one 17-mile stretch of London’s Tube (aka subway) [were replaced with moving sidewalks](http://www.wired.com/2015/09/real-plan-replace-londons-tube-moving-walkways/?ref=hyperallergic.com) instead of trains = **5**
- Millimeters in diameter of a videoscope the Getty Museum used [to look inside](http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/look-deep-inside-a-french-bronze-sculpture/?ref=hyperallergic.com) a 17th-century French bronze sculpture = **6**
- Number of months a Pennsylvania priest spent [building a Lego model ](http://bigstory.ap.org/article/0fd727525f4c413a83c83f53478d100b/everything-awesome-about-lego-vatican-view-philly?ref=hyperallergic.com)of St. Peter’s Basilica, which is currently on view at Philadelphia’s Franklin Institute in honor of the Papal visit = **10**
- Length of text and drawings (in feet) on the recently identified [oldest and longest ancient Egyptian manuscript](http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/oldest-and-longest-ancient-egyptian-leather-manuscript-found-150914.htm?ref=hyperallergic.com) \= **16.4**
- Number of lost baseball hats [found](http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/going-out-guide/wp/2015/09/14/the-national-building-museum-found-433-24-in-loose-change-at-the-bottom-of-the-beach/?ref=hyperallergic.com) while deinstalling the Snarkitecture-designed ball pit at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC = **32**
- Number of galleries in the Lower East Side Business Improvement District, [compared to 63 in 2010](http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20150828/REAL%5FESTATE/150829860?ref=hyperallergic.com) \= **124**
- Number of carats [the supposedly cursed Koh-i-Noor diamond](http://mentalfloss.com/article/68465/8-supposedly-cursed-gems?ref=hyperallergic.com) started at before some shoddy gem cutting = **800**
- Estimated number of rabbits killed [to bind](http://multcolib.tumblr.com/post/129186072094/in-1946-the-first-edition-of-little-fur-family-by?ref=hyperallergic.com) the 1946 first edition of Margaret Wise Brown’s children’s book, *Little Fur Family*, in fur = **15,000**