6.4 the percentage increase (reaching a total of 2,473) in billionaires in the world over the last year
7 the percentage of art sold online globally last year
31 the percentage drop in sales value of art sold through Sotheby’s auction house last year
70 the percentage of operating art museums in the world that were founded after 2000
190 the amount in thousands of dollars that the movie star Alec Baldwin paid for a painting by Ross Bleckner he didn’t want
800 the number of Andy Warhol paintings owned by the New York based Mugrabi family art collection
1,000 the number of portraits David Hockney claims he will paint of ‘his friends, family plus art world movers and shakers’
1,114 the amount in dollars paid per square centimeter for Jean Michael Basquiat’s 1.8 x 2.13 meter painting Dustheads making a total of $67 million
1,575 the number of art museums in the United States
