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# Sum of the Arts
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/sum-of-the-arts-4/
- Published: 2015-04-03T18:23:29.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:43:29.000Z
- Description: People who saw a Ming Dynasty painting and calligraphy show at the National Palace Museum in Taipei in 2014, making it the most popular exhibition of the year = 1,131,788
- 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)

![60 drops of water fall each second in "Light in Water" by DGT architects, on view in Paris at Éléphant Paname in Paris (© takuji shimmura, courtesy DGT architects)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2015/04/dgtarchitectsparis.jpg)

60 drops of water fall each second in “Light in Water” by DGT architects, on view in Paris at Éléphant Paname in Paris (© Takuji Shimmura, courtesy DGT architects)

*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.*

Tons of white LEGOs [that will be used by High Line visitors](http://art.thehighline.org/project/panorama/?ref=hyperallergic.com) to build the imaginary cityscape of Olafur Eliasson’s “The Collectivity Project” = **2**

Pairs of laced shoes Vincent van Gogh [painted over a flower still life](http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/tour/art-science/slide/521?ref=hyperallergic.com), on view at Harvard Art Museums = **3**

Ships adorned in the wild, geometric [“dazzle” camouflage](https://hyperallergic.com/modernist-camouflage-reconstructed/) patterns of World War I [for its centenary in England](http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/apr/02/mersey-ferry-peter-blake-dazzle-treatment-first-world-war?ref=hyperallergic.com) \= **3**

Odds [given by London bookies](http://mentalfloss.com/article/62425/14-things-you-didnt-know-about-scream?ref=hyperallergic.com) that Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” would be stolen before it went to auction at Sotheby’s in 2012 = **20:1**

Drops of water falling per second in DGT architects’ “[Light in Water](http://www.designboom.com/architecture/light-in-water-installation-dgt-architects-03-31-2015/?ref=hyperallergic.com),” installed in the oldest concrete dome in Paris = **60**

Age of Manoel de Oliveira, the oldest active filmmaker [who passed away this week](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/03/arts/manoel-de-oliveira-pensive-filmmaker-who-made-up-for-lost-time-is-dead.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) at his home in Portugal = **106**

Statues of the Buddhist deity of mercy in Kyoto, Japan, [nearing the completion of a restoration project](http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind%5Fnews/social%5Faffairs/AJ201504010070?ref=hyperallergic.com) started in the 1930s = **1,000** (and each considered a thousand-armed being)

Burials in a lost medieval cemetery [revealed beneath Cambridge University](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/archaeology/11507042/Lost-medieval-cemetery-found-under-Cambridge-University.html?ref=hyperallergic.com), some of which did not fit in their graves as they were likely pre-dug = **1,300**

Landscape architects [living in California](http://landscapearchitecturemagazine.org/2015/03/17/head-counts/?ref=hyperallergic.com), the most of any state = **3,014** (compared to North Dakota with just **12**)

People who saw a Ming Dynasty painting and calligraphy show at the National Palace Museum in Taipei in 2014, making it [the most popular exhibition of the year](http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Visitor-figures--the-world-goes-dotty-over-Yayoi-Kusama/37403?ref=hyperallergic.com) \= **1,131,788**