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# Sum of the Arts
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/sum-of-the-arts-9/
- Published: 2015-05-08T15:33:10.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:43:24.000Z
- Description: Terracotta soldiers expected to be unearthed in China after excavation was halted in 2008 = 1,400
- 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)

![After Frida Kahlo's leg was amputated in 1953 she designed this prosthetic with bells on the red boot. Frida by Ishiuchi #36, 2012-2015 © Ishiuchi Miyako. Courtesy Michael Hoppen Gallery press image](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2015/05/fridakahloleg.jpg)

After Frida Kahlo’s leg was amputated in 1953, she designed this prosthetic with bells on a red boot. Photographed by Ishiuchi Miyako in Kahlo’s wardrobe, which was unseen until 2004\. (“Frida by Ishiuchi #36,” 2012–5, © Ishiuchi Miyako, courtesy Michael Hoppen Gallery)

*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 Diego Rivera asked that Frida Kahlo’s personal effects [be sealed off](http://www.michaelhoppengallery.com/exhibitions/23/overview/?ref=hyperallergic.com) in their Mexico City house’s bathroom after her death in 1954, although they wouldn’t be revealed until 2004 = **15** (photographs by Ishiuchi Miyako of her long unseen wardrobe[ are on view in London](http://www.michaelhoppengallery.com/exhibitions/23/overview/?ref=hyperallergic.com))

Number of earthquakes [that damaged](http://www.thecairopost.com/news/149009/culture/alexandria-lighthouse-to-be-reassembled-in-original-location?ref=hyperallergic.com) the Lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World = **3** (the landmark has been [approved for reconstruction](http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-32595767?ref=hyperallergic.com) by Egyptian officials)

Monumental bronze extinct birds by Todd McGrain [installed at the Smithsonian Institution Libraries](http://www.gardens.si.edu/our-gardens/lost-bird-project.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) \= **5**

Artworks by women and queer artists donated in a conceptual piece called “[Deed of Gift](http://www.thestranger.com/features/feature/2015/05/06/22172125/the-most-unusual-art-gift-ever?ref=hyperallergic.com)” to the Seattle Art Museum = **7**

Austrian and Russian cannons used [to cast a statue of Napoléon Bonaparte](http://theartnewspaper.com/news/conservation/154912/?ref=hyperallergic.com) in 1833 = **16** (it was later lost in the Seine where it lost its head)

Fine (in US dollars) each of the two artists [were given by the city of NYC](http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/edward-snowden-bust-artists-recover-sculpture-city-article-1.2212650?ref=hyperallergic.com) for their guerrilla Edward Snowden sculpture installed [in Fort Greene Park](https://hyperallergic.com/renegade-edward-snowden-monument-erected-and-quickly-removed-in-brooklyn-park/) last month = **50**

Percentage of the National Museum of African American History and Culture (expected to open in 2016) [that is now complete](http://wtop.com/dc/2015/05/new-museum-on-national-mall-is-75-percent-complete/?ref=hyperallergic.com) \= **75**

Talking dolls made and sold by Thomas Edison in 1890, the shrieking wax cylinder voices of which [were recently resurrected](http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/05/05/404445211/edisons-talking-dolls-can-now-provide-the-soundtrack-to-your-nightmares?ref=hyperallergic.com) \= **500**

Gallons of primer [that will be required](http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/queens/ny-state-pavilion-3-million-facelift-free-article-1.2210973?ref=hyperallergic.com) to repaint the Philip Johnson-designed [New York State Pavilion](https://hyperallergic.com/after-27-years-a-new-york-worlds-fair-relic-reopens-to-the-public/) from the 1964 World’s Fair = **700**

Terracotta soldiers [expected to be unearthed](http://io9.com/over-1-400-terracotta-soldiers-could-be-uncovered-in-ne-1702259092?ref=hyperallergic.com) in a new dig in China (excavations were halted [in 2008](http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2015-05-01/news/61723499%5F1%5Fexcavation-second-pit-shaanxi-province?ref=hyperallergic.com)) = **1,400**