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# Sum of the Arts
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/sum-of-the-arts-7/
- Published: 2015-04-24T17:04:53.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:43:27.000Z
- Description: Years the Hubble Space Telescope has been photographing the universe from above our atmosphere = 25
- 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)

![A 2011 image of a "rose" of galaxies from the Hubble Space Telescope (courtesy NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA))](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2015/04/hubbletelescope25.jpg)

A 2011 image of a “rose” of galaxies from the Hubble Space Telescope (courtesy NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA))

*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.*

Years the Hubble Space Telescope [has been photographing the universe](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/science/25-years-later-hubble-sees-beyond-troubled-start.html?%5Fr=0&ref=hyperallergic.com) from above our atmosphere = **25**

Hooks once used to [strategically hold a fig leaf](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/luxury/travel/67851/victoria-and-albert-museum-london-guide-director-tips-martin-roth.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) on a cast of Michelangelo’s “David” at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London (which is still on display near the statue) = **2**

Mortuary coolers [at the Art and Olfaction Awards in Los Angeles](http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/art-and-olfaction-awards-what-did-qaddafi-death-smell-like?ref=hyperallergic.com) that recreated the scents from the final four minutes of four celebrity’s lives = **4**

Scaffolding levels Italian artist Fra.Biancoshock [transformed into a vertical home](http://www.designboom.com/art/fra-biancoshock-scaffold-personal-skyscraper-04-24-2015/?ref=hyperallergic.com), including a studio = **5**

Miles of stone and earth ruins [archaeologists believe](http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/archeology/154423/?ref=hyperallergic.com) are a forgotten stretch of the Great Wall of China = **6**

Dollars that Mary Doyle Keefe, [who passed away this week](http://qz.com/389794/the-woman-who-inspired-rosie-the-riveter-has-died-at-92/?ref=hyperallergic.com), was paid by Norman Rockwell to model for his 1943 “Rosie the Riveter” painting = **10** (**150** in today’s currency)

Generations of a Japanese family which has single-handedly [sculpted the pottery known as Raku](http://www.wsj.com/articles/raku-the-cosmos-in-a-tea-bowl-reviewnow-on-view-at-the-los-angeles-county-museum-of-art-1429738016?ref=hyperallergic.com) \= **15**

Goya witch drawings [on view together at the Courtauld Gallery](http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/conservation/17196/?ref=hyperallergic.com) in London for the first time since 1877, in their intended order = **22**

Percentage of scenes featuring marches [on Trajan’s Column](http://www.nationalgeographic.com/trajan-column/?ref=hyperallergic.com) in Rome = **29** (with battles just behind at **21**)

Floating yellow, fabric-lined cubes that will form paths across Lake Iseo in Italy [as part of Christo’s 2016 “The Floating Piers” project](http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/22/new-christo-work-to-temporarily-bridge-italys-lake-iseo/?ref=hyperallergic.com) \= **200,000**