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wednesday

15.77% of the artworks in The Metropolitan's Modern and Contemporary Art Collection are by women (2,027 out of the total 14,350 artworks are by women and 10,829 are by men = 12,856 artworks. Here not including the 1,494 that are ‘unknown’ maker, or the artwork is by a named artist whose gender is not yet identified, or by an artist couple/collaborative with both women and men). Shape

source: Met csv Jan 2018, artists in the Met's Modern & Contemporary Art Collection identified by gender

thursday

Earth's largest ice sheet, Antarctica, lost 219 billion tons of ice annually in 2012 – 2017, approx. triple the melt rate of the previous decade. Rate measured in tons of ice. Ice Sheet Mass Balance Inter-Comparison Exercise, 80 scientists from NASA and the ESA. Size

source: The Antarctic Report

friday

Artworks listed by the name of the artist in The Met's Modern & Contemporary Art Collection whose makers are identified by gender. 12,856 artworks are by either women or men, many artists have multiple artworks in the collection - here every name is listed, many therefore are listed multiple times. Separated into artists who are women and artists who are men. Value

source: Met csv Jan 2018, artists in the Met's Modern & Contemporary Art Collection identified by gender

saturday

NYC flood hazard mapper shows areas vulnerable to flooding from 1% annual chance storm (FEMA’s Preliminary Flood Insurance Rate Maps (PFIRMs) released in 2015 as part of a citywide flood map update, 1% annual chance storm also known as the Special Flood Hazard Area or 100-year floodplain.) The source mapper shows areas vulnerable to flooding, and displays water height rises predicted for future decades. Position

source: NYC flood hazard mapper

sunday

15,039 artists in MoMA csv data on kaggle. For those artists identified by MoMA in the dataset (80%), 65% are artists who are men, 15% are artists who are women. Color

source: MoMA artists csv on kaggle

monday

There are 105 different media classifications for artwork in the Modern & Contemporary Art Collection in The Met. For media classifications with more than ten artworks, women are collected more than men in only 5 media - all of the 5 categories are textile-related media. Texture

source: Met csv Jan 2018, artists in the Met's Modern & Contemporary Art Collection

tuesday

Of the 12,904 artworks whose makers are identified by nationality through the artist display bio column, 5 artworks are by Chinese artists. Orientation

source: Met csv Jan 2018, artists in the Met's Modern & Contemporary Art Collection

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