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# Sum of the Arts
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/sum-of-the-arts/
- Published: 2015-03-13T15:26:05.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:43:32.000Z
- Description: Inspired by the Harper's Index, Sum of the Arts is a periodic tabulation of numbers floating around the art world and beyond.
- 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)

![An illustration from "Goldfish Breeds and Other Aquarium Fishes" (1908) (Internet Archive Book Images, via Flickr)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2015/03/goldfishnumbered.jpg)

An illustration from “Goldfish Breeds and Other Aquarium Fishes” (1908) (Internet Archive Book Images, via Flickr)

*Inspired by the* [*Harper’s Index*](http://harpers.org/departments/harpers-index/?ref=hyperallergic.com)*,* *Sum of the Arts is a periodic tabulation of numbers floating around the art world and beyond.*

- Goldfish in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Astor Court Chinese garden [when it opened in 1981](http://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-museum/now-at-the-met/2015/asian-art-secrets?ref=hyperallergic.com) \= **26**, one for each workman, brought from their Suzhou home
- Years since Vincent van Gogh’s “Moulin d’Alphonse” painting, [going on view this Friday at TEFAF Maastricht](http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/mar/09/van-gogh-landscape-to-be-shown-for-first-time-in-100-years?ref=hyperallergic.com), was seen by the public = **105**
- Stops on the [Shakespeare’s First Folio 2016 tour](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2015/02/26/shakespeares-first-folios-are-set-to-travel/?ref=hyperallergic.com) from the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC = **52** (including all the states, DC, and Puerto Rico)
- Wikipedia articles on female artists [added during](http://www.artnews.com/2015/03/10/artfeminisms-2015-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-adds-334-articles-on-female-artists/?ref=hyperallergic.com) the March 7 Art + Feminism Edit-a-thon = **334**
- Days after his death architect Frei Otto [was announced](http://curbed.com/archives/2015/03/10/frei-otto-pritzker-prize-2015-win-announcement.php?ref=hyperallergic.com) as the recipient of the Pritzer Prize = **1**
- Mummies currently [on special view](http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats%5Fon/exhibitions/ancient%5Flives.aspx?ref=hyperallergic.com) at the British Museum = **8**, spanning a range of **4,000** years
- Decades it took the wide-eyed and furry olinguito of South America [to be described as a new species](http://www.amnh.org/shelf-life/shelf-life-skull-of-the-olinguito?ref=hyperallergic.com) while on the shelves of the American Museum of Natural History = **9**
- Masterworks formerly of the Corcoran Gallery, [now on display ](http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/exhibitions/2015/american-masterworks-from-the-corcoran.html?from=home-page&ref=hyperallergic.com)at the National Gallery of Art which is their new steward = **29** paintings, **2** sculptures
- Weight of De Wain Valentine’s twin 1970s “Grey Column,” [to be displayed](http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/De-Wain-Valentines-monumental-Grey-Columns-to-be-shown-side-by-sideat-last/37242?ref=hyperallergic.com) as a pair for the first time as intended this June at David Zwirner Gallery = **3,500** pounds
- The 1958 Mark Rothko painting that is [going to auction](http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/03/06/rare-mark-rothko-painting-leads-christies-new-york-auction/?ref=hyperallergic.com) May 13 with an estimate between $30 and $50 million = “No. **36** (Black Stripe)”