Sum of the Arts
Age of the mummified monk long forgotten inside a 1,000-year-old gilded statue, which Chinese villagers now want restituted from a Dutch private collector = 30–40
Inspired by the Harper’s Index, Sum of the Arts is a periodic tabulation of numbers floating around the art world and beyond.
Inches off the top of Scafell Pike, the highest mountain in England, taken by artist Oscar Santillan for his London exhibition = 1
Artifacts reportedly broken in transit from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, including King Tutankhamen’s chair = 4 (Note: later news is suggesting the damage reports were potentially retaliation by a demoted worker.)
Age of the mummified monk long forgotten inside a 1,000-year-old gilded statue, which Chinese villagers now want restituted from a Dutch private collector = 30–40
Percent of staff photographers at American newspapers laid off since 2000 = 43
Monthly rent for Andy Warhol’s first NYC studio, the lease for which is going to auction at Sotheby’s with an estimate between $8,000 and $12,000 = 150
Portions of cactus omelette, made with a recipe by artist Ed Ruscha, that will be distributed each Saturday of the Station to Station project = 150
Mule shoes from Metabolic Studio’s 2013 caravan across the Los Angeles Aqueduct, on view at the Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions space = 250
Estimated paintings created by Hitler while practicing as an artist in Vienna, including one withdrawn from auction this week = 2,000
Flat-packed refugee shelters made by IKEA sold to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for use this summer = 10,000
Tickets to the La Fenice opera in Venice that went to Italians last year, out of 145,000 sold = 45,000
