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# Sum of the Arts
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/sum-of-the-arts-8/
- Published: 2015-05-01T14:11:11.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:43:26.000Z
- Description: Percentage of the Cortlandt Street NYC subway station walls that will be covered with text fragments by artist Ann Hamilton = 70
- 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)

![Baseball players Napoleon Lajoie and Honus Wagner in 1904 (via Boston Public Library). A baseball card featuring Wagner sold for TK at auction.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2015/04/sumofartswagner.jpg)

Baseball players Napoleon Lajoie and Honus Wagner in 1904 (via Boston Public Library). A baseball card featuring Wagner sold for $1.3m at auction.

*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.*

- Number of prospective buyers who helped drive up the price of the most valuable baseball card — a 1910s depiction of Honus Wagner of the Pittsburgh Pirates — [to $1.3 million](http://observer.com/2015/04/buyer-nabs-worlds-most-valuable-baseball-card-for-only-1-3-m/?ref=hyperallergic.com) at auction last weekend = **42**
- Gold-plated trumpets that will join hundreds of artifacts in [a new Louis Armstrong House Museum Education Center](http://www.amny.com/real-estate/city-living/queens/louis-armstrong-house-museum-gets-bigger-home-1.10349624?ref=hyperallergic.com) set to open in 2017 = **5**
- [Number of oil sketches](http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/art-and-architecture/group-of-seven-oil-sketches-to-be-tested-for-authenticity/article24144217/?ref=hyperallergic.com) by Canadian Group of Seven member J.E.H MacDonald buried in the Toronto artist’s backyard, later exhumed by his son and donated to the Vancouver Art Gallery = **10**
- Carnegie library branches, which were built with funds donated by Andrew Carnegie in the early 20th century, [still operating in Brooklyn](http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/new-york-public-library-opens-andrew-carnegie-exhibit-article-1.2202537?ref=hyperallergic.com) \= **18**
- Hours composer Karlheinz Stockhausen intended for his unfinished cycle [*Klang*,](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klang%5F%28Stockhausen%29?ref=hyperallergic.com) which [will be performed](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/29/arts/music/met-museum-to-expand-its-musical-offerings-with-new-breuer-space.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) in the spring of 2016 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s three locations, including the Whitney’s old Breuer building = **24**
- Years Kazuo Nomura took before [drawing a mind-bending sequel](http://www.spoon-tamago.com/2015/03/25/papas-maze-2-0-a-fathers-beautifully-intricate-puzzle-for-his-daughter/?ref=hyperallergic.com) to what’s considered the most challenging maze in the world = **32**
- Percentage of the Cortlandt Street NYC subway station walls that [will be covered with text fragments](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/30/nyregion/at-cortlandt-street-subway-station-art-woven-from-words.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) by artist Ann Hamilton = **70**
- Miles (roughly) [between](https://www.google.com/maps/dir/P%C3%A8re+Lachaise+Cemetery,+Rue+du+Repos,+Paris,+France/Holy+Cross+Church,+Krakowskie+Przedmie%C5%9Bcie+3,+00-047+Warszawa,+Poland/@50.633999,6.9458805,6z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m13!4m12!1m5!1m1!1s0x47e66d8b5c69a785:0xa1cf6127530b6419!2m2!1d2.393328!2d48.861393!1m5!1m1!1s0x471ecc5fca555fdd:0x70a5b3f417d145f2!2m2!1d21.016851!2d52.238758?ref=hyperallergic.com) composer Frédéric Chopin’s interred body and his heart [kept in a crystal urn](http://mentalfloss.com/article/63428/10-people-whose-hearts-were-buried-separately-rest-them?ref=hyperallergic.com) \= **985**
- Feet the tallest structure in the Western hemisphere, the KVLY-TV Tower, [stands in the North Dakota countryside](http://www.archdaily.com/625418/where-the-real-skyscrapers-are-hint-north-dakota/?ref=hyperallergic.com) \= **2,063**
- Weight (in pounds) of each of the five granite arches [that are part of a memorial sculpture](http://curbed.com/archives/2015/04/30/sean-collier-memorial-mit.php?ref=hyperallergic.com) dedicated to the MIT police officer killed by the Boston Marathon bombers = **20,000–50,000**