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# Sum of the Arts
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/sum-of-the-arts-30/
- Published: 2015-10-16T15:53:29.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:42:58.000Z
- Description: Years Edgar Degas's "L'Absinthe" (1876) was hidden from view after a terrible critical reception = 16
- 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)

![Azuma Makoto, "Shiki I x Underwater" (2015) (courtesy the artist and Zhulong Gallery)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2015/10/bonsaijourney.jpg)

Azuma Makoto, “Shiki I x Underwater” (2015) (courtesy the artist and Zhulong Gallery)

[*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.*

- Height in feet of a bonsai pine tree artist Azuma Makota took [on a decade journey around the world](http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2015/10/13/one-pine-trees-incredible-10-year-journey-around-the-globe/?ref=hyperallergic.com), including one trip [30,000 meters above the Earth](http://azumamakoto.com/?p=5051&ref=hyperallergic.com) \= **5**
- Miles of Nile Valley rock art from prehistoric to modern times [added to](https://www.wmf.org/project/sabu-jaddi-rock-art-sites?ref=hyperallergic.com) the World Monuments Fund Watch List of endangered sites = **3**
- Number of artworks in off-limits secure government locations [revealed by](http://www.gsa.gov/fa/?ref=hyperallergic.com#/gallery/420) the new US General Services Administration online database = **6**
- Years Edgar Degas’s “L’Absinthe” (1876) [was hidden from view](http://mentalfloss.com/article/69281/10-intoxicating-facts-about-edgar-degass-labsinthe?ref=hyperallergic.com) after a terrible critical reception = **16** (its return in 1892 was equally reviled)
- Metric tons of soil installed in the Tate Modern’s turbine hall [as part of Abraham Cruzvillegas’s project](http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/oct/12/tate-modern-cultivates-interest-latest-turbine-hall-show-abraham-cruzvillegas?ref=hyperallergic.com), which will grow whatever plants scattered by visitors or the wind = **23**
- Number of years art was created [in caves carved by Buddhists](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/18/travel/china-gobi-desert.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) at the edge of the Gobi desert in China = **1,000**
- Number of bamboo sticks artist Joko Avianto [wove into a giant basket](http://www.designboom.com/art/joko-avianto-frankfurter-kunstverein-big-trees-bamboo-10-15-2015/?ref=hyperallergic.com) over the façade of a Frankfurt museum = **1,500**
- Year in which Isaac Newton [predicted](http://www.openculture.com/2015/10/in-1704-isaac-newton-predicts-the-world-will-end-in-2060.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) the world would end = **2060**
- Number of artworks from the defunct Corcoran Gallery of Art [now in the permanent collection](https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/national-gallery-of-art-acquires-nearly-8000-works-from-corcoran/2015/10/15/127ef9b6-7350-11e5-8d93-0af317ed58c9%5Fstory.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) of the National Gallery of Art = **8,000**
- Number of [fake ballots](http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/story-st-louis-gateway-arch-180956624/?ref=hyperallergic.com) that helped pass a bond measure to raze waterfront property and build the St. Louis Arch, which turns 50 [this month](http://www.gatewayarch.com/about/50th-anniversary.aspx?ref=hyperallergic.com) \= **46,000**