Number of magnetic tape recordings in museums and other archives that won’t be possible to digitize in 20 years due to changing technology and disintegration = 46,000,000
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Number of sculptures the Rodin Museum in Paris is allowed to cast from each original Rodin mold = 12
Sum of the Arts: Mummified Edition
Year that both Paul Gauguin and Edvard Munch viewed a Peruvian mummy in Paris, now at the Musée de l’Homme, which may have inspired the howling expression of Munch’s “The Scream” = 1889
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Number of surviving copies of the misprinted 1631 “Sinners’ Bible” that demanded “Thou shalt commit adultery” = 10
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Years Edgar Degas’s “L’Absinthe” (1876) was hidden from view after a terrible critical reception = 16
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Number of artworks that will be installed in the new Minnesota Vikings stadium = 500
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Number of positions of movement in Marcel Duchamp’s “Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2” (1912) = 20
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Number of works by Man Ray stored in a Long Island auto body shop managed by his nephews = 4,500
Sum of the Arts: Picasso Edition
Estimated number of Picasso artworks that have been stolen = 1,147
Sum of the Arts: Lost Civilizations
Number of large-scale bronzes that survive from ancient Greece = ~200