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# Sum of the Arts
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/sum-of-the-arts-28/
- Published: 2015-10-02T11:00:36.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:43:01.000Z
- Description: Number of positions of movement in Marcel Duchamp's "Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2" (1912) = 20
- 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)

![The Ghent Altarpiece after its recovery from the Altaussee salt mine at the end of World War II (via aaa.si.edu)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2015/10/ghentaltarmine.jpg)

The Ghent Altarpiece after its recovery from the Altaussee salt mine at the end of World War II (via aaa.si.edu)

[*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 the *Ghent Altarpiece* [has been stolen](http://observer.com/2015/09/the-most-frequently-stolen-artwork-in-history-ison-the-high-line/?ref=hyperallergic.com) \= **6**
- Number of times the descent capsule used by Soviet Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, has been [exhibited outside of Russia](http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/sep/26/my-highlight-cosmonauts-birth-space-age-science-museum-london-exhibition-francis-spufford?ref=hyperallergic.com) \= **1** (in *Cosmonauts* now at the London Science Museum)
- Number of decades Robert Smithson’s *Spiral Jetty* [was completely submerged](http://theartnewspaper.com/news/conservation/159599/?ref=hyperallergic.com) underwater = **3**
- Number of crocodile heads contained within [a single Egyptian crocodile mummy](http://www.theguardian.com/science/animal-magic/2015/sep/30/gifts-gods-egyptian-mummy-crocodile-eight-heads?ref=hyperallergic.com) at the Manchester Museum = **8**
- Number of [positions of movement ](http://mentalfloss.com/article/68674/15-scandalous-facts-about-duchamps-nude-descending-staircase-no-2?ref=hyperallergic.com)in Marcel Duchamp’s “Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2” (1912) = **20**
- Age revealed by carbon dating [the remains of a Renaissance woman](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/11888685/Who-was-Mona-Lisa-Burial-breakthrough-may-solve-the-identity-mystery-behind-Da-Vinci-masterpiece.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) believed by some Italian researchers to be the Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa model = **63**
- Number of artists and art organizations [that have pledged](http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/sep/28/artists-pledge-spurn-oil-company-cash-sponsorship?ref=hyperallergic.com) to reject fossil fuel-connected funding = **180**
- Years the two Rembrandt portraits [jointly bought by France and the Netherlands](http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/09/30/france-and-the-netherlands-chip-in-to-buy-rembrandt-portraits/?ref=hyperallergic.com) for $179,000,000 (€160,000,000) were in private hands = **400**
- Year the only surviving US Navy ship to have sunk an enemy vessel [was retired](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2015/09/30/theres-only-one-navy-ship-left-that-has-sunk-an-enemy-vessel-the-ancient-uss-constitution/?ref=hyperallergic.com) \= **1881**
- Number of stolen artworks by Goya, Sisley, and other masters[ that decorated](http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/sep/30/french-catalog-shows-how-top-nazi-amassed-stolen-f/?ref=hyperallergic.com) senior Nazi official Hermann Goering’s home = **1,376**