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# Sum of the Arts
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/sum-of-the-arts-29/
- Published: 2015-10-09T11:00:16.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:42:59.000Z
- Description: Number of artworks that will be installed in the new Minnesota Vikings stadium = 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)

![Jennifer Angus's installation of 5,000 insects at the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Renwick Gallery (photo by Ron Blunt, courtesy the artist)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2015/10/jenniferangussmithsonian.jpg)

Jennifer Angus’s installation of 5,000 insects at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery (photo by Ron Blunt, courtesy the artist)

[*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 Southeast Asian insects covering the walls as patterned wallpaper by Jennifer Angus [at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery](http://www.designboom.com/art/jennifer-angus-bug-wallpaper-wonder-smithsonian-american-art-museum-renwick-gallery-10-06-2015/?ref=hyperallergic.com), reopening November 13 = **5,000**
- Number of depictions of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination believed to have been [painted by an eyewitness](https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/lincoln-assassination-emerges-in-painting-from-150-years-of-grime/2015/10/05/21a24d0c-6866-11e5-9223-70cb36460919%5Fstory.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) \= **1** (Carl Bersch’s 1865 “Lincoln Borne by Loving Hands,” [now under restoration](https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/lincoln-assassination-emerges-in-painting-from-150-years-of-grime/2015/10/05/21a24d0c-6866-11e5-9223-70cb36460919%5Fstory.html?ref=hyperallergic.com))
- Number of Robert Mapplethorpe photographs deemed obscene in the [1990 indictments against the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center](http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/when-art-fought-law-and-art-won-180956810/?ref=hyperallergic.com), which was found not guilty of the charges = **7**
- Width (in inches) of an [1870 scrolling pre-film historic panorama](http://huntingtonblogs.org/2015/10/look-a-historiscope/?ref=hyperallergic.com) issued by Milton Bradley = **8**
- Percentage of Wikipedia contributors [who are women](http://blogs.guggenheim.org/checklist/how-online-activisim-is-empowering-women-in-architecture/?ref=hyperallergic.com) \= **13**
- Number of previously unknown lines of the ancient epic of Gilgamesh [found on a tablet](http://www.openculture.com/2015/10/20-new-lines-from-the-epic-of-gilgamesh-discovered-in-iraq-adding-new-dimensions-to-the-story.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) in the Sulaymaniyah Museum in Iraq = **20**
- Number of words per minute in [*Hamilton* the musical](http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/hamilton-is-the-very-model-of-a-modern-fast-paced-musical/?ref=hyperallergic.com) \= **144** (compared to **59** in *Oklahoma!*)
- Number of artworks that will be installed in the [new Minnesota Vikings stadium](http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/vikings-stadium-include-500-works-art-34283143?ref=hyperallergic.com) \= **500**
- Height above sea level of a glass walkway on China’s Yuntai Mountain that [alarmed visitors when it cracked](http://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/07/china-glass-bridge-walkway-yuntai/?ref=hyperallergic.com) \= **3,500**
- Largest vinyl pressing of [any single album](https://medium.com/@dealville/whales-synchronize-their-songs-across-oceans-and-theres-sheet-music-to-prove-it-b1667f603844?ref=hyperallergic.com) of recorded music = **10,000,000** (all of humpback whale songs [included](https://medium.com/@dealville/whales-synchronize-their-songs-across-oceans-and-theres-sheet-music-to-prove-it-b1667f603844?ref=hyperallergic.com) in a 1979 issue of *National Geographic*)