Sum of the Arts
Number of artworks that will be installed in the new Minnesota Vikings stadium = 500
Sum of the Arts is a periodic tabulation of numbers floating around the art world and beyond.
- Number of Southeast Asian insects covering the walls as patterned wallpaper by Jennifer Angus at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery, reopening November 13 = 5,000
- Number of depictions of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination believed to have been painted by an eyewitness = 1 (Carl Bersch’s 1865 “Lincoln Borne by Loving Hands,” now under restoration)
- Number of Robert Mapplethorpe photographs deemed obscene in the 1990 indictments against the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, which was found not guilty of the charges = 7
- Width (in inches) of an 1870 scrolling pre-film historic panorama issued by Milton Bradley = 8
- Percentage of Wikipedia contributors who are women = 13
- Number of previously unknown lines of the ancient epic of Gilgamesh found on a tablet in the Sulaymaniyah Museum in Iraq = 20
- Number of words per minute in Hamilton the musical = 144 (compared to 59 in Oklahoma!)
- Number of artworks that will be installed in the new Minnesota Vikings stadium = 500
- Height above sea level of a glass walkway on China’s Yuntai Mountain that alarmed visitors when it cracked = 3,500
- Largest vinyl pressing of any single album of recorded music = 10,000,000 (all of humpback whale songs included in a 1979 issue of National Geographic)
