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# Sum of the Arts
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/sum-of-the-arts-5/
- Published: 2015-04-10T23:46:15.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:43:28.000Z
- Description: Years a message in a bottle was floating in the Baltic Sea until its discovery by a fisherman = 101
- 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)

![Message in a bottle discovered after 101 years in the Baltic Sea, now on view through May 1 at the International Maritime Museum Hamburg (courtesy International Maritime Museum Hamburg)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2015/04/messageinabottle1.jpg)

Message in a bottle discovered after 101 years in the Baltic Sea (courtesy International Maritime Museum Hamburg)

*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.*

Paintings in the Louvre that have received their own fan mail and [require a personal mailbox](http://mentalfloss.com/article/62280/14-things-you-didnt-know-about-mona-lisa?ref=hyperallergic.com) \= **1** (the “Mona Lisa”)

Cézanne sketches found on the back of his watercolors [going on view](http://www.barnesfoundation.org/exhibitions/upcoming/cezanne-uncovered/?ref=hyperallergic.com) this Friday at Philadelphia’s Barnes Foundation = **2**

Pieces of a broken and burned Michelangelo sculpture[ reassembled in Florence](http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/02/michelangelo-work-destroyed-in-spains-civil-war-unveiled-after-restoration?ref=hyperallergic.com) over two decades = **14**

Unpublished Frida Kahlo love letters to José Bartoli [on display and going to auction](http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/apr/09/frida-kahlo-love-letters-to-jose-bartoli-auction-new-york?ref=hyperallergic.com) next Wednesday at Doyle’s in New York = **25** (some over **100** pages long)

Years a message in a bottle was floating in the Baltic Sea [until its discovery](http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/04/08/300634990/100-year-old-message-in-a-bottle-plucked-from-baltic-sea?ref=hyperallergic.com) by a fisherman = **101**

3D scans of animal skulls [added](http://www.theverge.com/2015/4/9/8375875/google-art-project-3d-animal-skulls?ref=hyperallergic.com) to [the Google Art Project](https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/u/0/collection/california-academy-of-sciences?ref=hyperallergic.com) by the California Academy of Sciences = over **200**

Clay figures [sculpted by artist Liz Crow](http://www.disabilityartsonline.org.uk/Interview-Liz-Crow-on-Figures?ref=hyperallergic.com) from Thames river mud as an endurance performance on British austerity measures = **650**

Graffiti inscriptions by WWI soldiers[ discovered in tunnels](http://bigstory.ap.org/article/0d4bc59395934334a52232cc52b56f9e/wwi-graffiti-sheds-light-soldiers-experience?ref=hyperallergic.com) 100 feet below the ground north of Paris = **2,000**

Estimated living weight of[ the 80% intact stegosaurus skeleton](http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/03/04/scientists-work-out-the-weight-of-a-famous-stegosaurus/?ref=hyperallergic.com) recently added to the Natural History Museum in London = **3,527** pounds

Plastic translucent balls[ that will fill the National Building Museum](http://www.citylab.com/design/2015/04/the-national-building-museum-is-bringing-the-beach-indoors-this-summer/390054/?ref=hyperallergic.com) in Washington, DC as part of Snarkitecture’s “The Beach” installation this summer = **1,000,000**