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# Sum of the Arts
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/sum-of-the-arts-3/
- Published: 2015-03-27T11:01:31.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:43:30.000Z
- Description: 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
- Author: Allison Meier
- Tags: Art, Sum of the Arts, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:08 (2014, 2015, part 2)

![Mummified monk revealed inside a golden statue, recently on view at the Drents Museum,  Netherlands ( ©German-Mummy-Project Mannheim, courtesy Drents Museum)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2015/03/drentsmuseummummy.jpg)

Mummified monk revealed inside a golden statue, recently on view at the Drents Museum, Netherlands ( ©German-Mummy-Project Mannheim, courtesy Drents Museum)

*Inspired by the* [*Harper’s Index*](http://harpers.org/departments/harpers-index/?ref=hyperallergic.com)*,* [*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.*

Inches off the top of Scafell Pike, the highest mountain in England, [taken by artist Oscar Santillan](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/tourism/11496376/Artist-who-took-1in-rock-off-Scafell-Pikes-summit-vandalised-Englands-highest-mountain.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) for his London exhibition = **1**

Artifacts[ reportedly broken in transit](http://www.thecairopost.com/news/143389/culture/king-tuts-chair-broken-in-transit-to-new-egyptian-museum?ref=hyperallergic.com) from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, including King Tutankhamen’s chair = **4** *(Note:* [*later news*](http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/126175/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Tutankhmuns-chair-is-safe-and-sound.aspx?ref=hyperallergic.com) *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](http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article%5Fxinhua.aspx?id=273719&ref=hyperallergic.com) from a Dutch private collector = **30–40** 

Percent of staff photographers at American newspapers [laid off since 2000](http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/mar/21/philadelphia-inquirer-american-newspaper-will-steacy?ref=hyperallergic.com) \= **43**

Monthly rent for Andy Warhol’s first NYC studio, the lease for which [is going to auction at Sotheby’s](http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2015/03/24/own%5Fthe%5Foriginal%5Flease%5Ffor%5Fandy%5Fwarhols%5Ffirst%5Fnyc%5Fstudio.php?ref=hyperallergic.com) 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](http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/ed-ruscha-to-serve-up-cactus-omelette-in-the-name-of-art-10133444.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) each Saturday of the Station to Station project = **150**

Mule shoes from Metabolic Studio’s [2013 caravan](http://www.kcet.org/arts/artbound/counties/inyo/100-mules-lauren-bon-metabolic-studio-los-angeles-equestrian-center.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) across the Los Angeles Aqueduct, [on view](http://www.kcet.org/arts/artbound/counties/los-angeles/after-the-aqueduct-los-angeles-contemporary-exhibitions.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) 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](http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/25/hitler-painting-withdrawn-auction?ref=hyperallergic.com) this week = **2,000**

Flat-packed refugee shelters made by IKEA [sold to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees](http://www.theverge.com/2015/3/26/8287509/ikea-refugee-shelter-flatpack-photos-iraq-syria?ref=hyperallergic.com) for use this summer = **10,000**

Tickets to the La Fenice opera in Venice [that went to Italians last year](http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2015/03/opera-venice?ref=hyperallergic.com), out of 145,000 sold = **45,000**