Sunday, September 29, 2013

By the numbers: International edition

0      the number of dollars it will cost you to visit the Eli Broad museum of contemporary art currently being built in LA

1      the number in billions spent on art per year by the royal family of Qatar


6.6  the cost in millions of dollars paid for the townhouse in New York where Warhol lived from 1959 to 1974


8       the estimated number in billions of dollars of the size of the annual global auction market
 

15     the number of curators it took to curate the current Texas Biennial

15     the number in thousands of masters degrees in the visual and performing arts awarded each year in the United States
 

15.3  the amount in millions of dollars slashed off the value of a Peter Doig painting offered for auction when Peter Doig announced he didn’t do it

43     the percentage representing the amount of contemporary art sold in the current art market

93     the number in thousands of new bachelor degrees in the visual and performing arts awarded each year in the United States

137   the number in millions of dollars paid for the work of Andy Warhol in the first half of 2013
 

425   the number of gondolier available for hire in Venice to get you to the Bill Culbert exhibition at the Venice Biennale
 

4000 the number of counterfeit tickets to the Louvre found concealed in a parcel from China by Belgian customs officials