1 the number of Te Papa touring exhibitions on show
at The American Museum of Natural History
(Whales: Giants of the Deep)
1 the
number of New Zealand dealer galleries that will be represented at the Frieze
Art Fair New York (Hopkinson Cundy)
1.79 the amount in millions of NZ dollars paid for the Chinese
Girl by Vladimir Tretchikoff
7 the
number of days a week the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will be open
as of 1 July
10 the
number of countries participating for the first time in this year’s Venice
Biennale
14 The number of Andy Warhol exhibitions currently
on tour throughout the world
24 the
percentage the Chinese art market fell last year
52 the
estimated percentage of total art sales worldwide that last year were handled
by the primary market
89 the number of days to wait before you can see the Statue of
Liberty following the havoc created by Hurricane Sandy
154
the number of artists in Massimiliano Gioni’s exhibition The Encyclopaedic Palace slated for this
year’s Venice Biennale
200 the number in hundreds of thousands of people
who have visited the Mike Kelley retrospective at the refurbished Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam since
it opened last December
1,000 the number of tents to be pitched in Ai
Weiwei’s installation Aus der Aufklärung
in Germany
50,000+ the number of tickets the
V&A pre-sold to its David Bowie exhibition
