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Number of Water Lilies paintings destroyed by Monet just before a 1908 exhibition = 15
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Number of figures Edward Hopper posed for in his 1942 painting "Nighthawks" = 2
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In a survey of 150 US art museums, fraction of directors now aged over 60 = 1/3
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Terracotta soldiers expected to be unearthed in China after excavation was halted in 2008 = 1,400
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Percentage of the Cortlandt Street NYC subway station walls that will be covered with text fragments by artist Ann Hamilton = 70
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Years the Hubble Space Telescope has been photographing the universe from above our atmosphere = 25
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Self-portraits Rembrandt painted, sketched, or etched in his lifetime = 80
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Years a message in a bottle was floating in the Baltic Sea until its discovery by a fisherman = 101
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People who saw a Ming Dynasty painting and calligraphy show at the National Palace Museum in Taipei in 2014, making it the most popular exhibition of the year = 1,131,788
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Age of the mummified monk long forgotten inside a 1,000-year-old gilded statue, which Chinese villagers now want restituted from a Dutch private collector = 30–40
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Display cases for the 300 artifacts in Vodou: Sacred Powers of Haiti at the Field Museum in Chicago = 0 (to respect the belief that Vodou objects should not be encased)
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Inspired by the Harper's Index, Sum of the Arts is a periodic tabulation of numbers floating around the art world and beyond.