Search Harper's Index: Numbers and statistics filed under "Art"

6/86Amount the Reagan Administration has budgeted for military bands in 1987: $154,200,000

5/89Estimated number of galleries that have exhibited paintings and prints by Tony Bennett in the last eight years: 50

11/91Number of last year’s NEA grant recipients who perform mime: 5

10/95Ratio of the annual budget of the National Endowment for the Arts to the cost of producing Waterworld: 1:1

12/95Amount the U.S. government budgeted this year for aid to U.S. workers laid off as a result of NAFTA: $43,400,000

Number of workers approved for such aid this year: 42,172

Number of these who are “indigenous crafts” workers in El Paso: 26

12/95Price of a sheet of “undipped” blotter-acid art signed by Timothy Leary, from San Francisco’s Art Rock Gallery: $225

1/97Miles the average sixth-grader doodles during the school year: 1.3

8/98Chance that a work of art on display in the Capitol includes a depiction of an African American: 1 in 70

8/99Number of days last year that a British art museum exhibited a mound of dung from Dolly, the world’s first cloned sheep: 51

Apparent age, in years, of three-year-old Dolly ‘s DNA: 9

6/00Number of “marriage studies” majors learning “the art of getting and staying married ” last term at a Pennsylvania college: 8

3/01Amount a Danish art museum was fined last year for an exhibition inviting visitors to liquefy live goldfish in blenders: $225

4/05Price of an original Picasso drawing sold in January on Costco.com: $39,999.99

10/06Number of the last six years that fine-art prices have outperformed the S&P 500: 5

2/09Pounds of ice, sculpted into the word economy, that artists used last fall to create a “literal meltdown” in Manhattan: 1,500