Super Bowl Smack Talk. Between Art Museum Directors??

[BOSSHOG]

A rather significant wager has been set between the Indianapolis Museum of Art and the New Orleans Museum of Art on the outcome of the SuperBowl. If, perchance, the Colts win the game, the New Orleans Museum will loan the Indianapolis Museum Claude Lorrain's 1644 painting "Ideal View of Tivoli" for three months. When the Saints win the game, the Indianapolis Museum will loan "The Fifth Plaque of Egypt" painted in 1800 by English Artist Joseph Mallord William Turner for three months.

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. Pitting a Lorrain against a Turner? Methinks New Orleans fears losing.

If they want to be real, they'll wager that the loser has to burn a Twombly.

[BOSSHOG]

2. There were some silly suggestions

before the final arrangement was made. NOLA was going to send Indy a Portrait of Peyton and Eli Manning when they were children. Indy originally offered a "splashy abstraction inspired by skid marks at the Indianapolis 500." The New Orleans Director apologized to Indy saying "we don't have any farms scenes to send you." A veritable cultural cage match.

[SoxFan]

3. Why NOMA is awesome

At the exhibition commemorating the 200th anniversary of the Louisiana Purchase, they included one of those silly, big-ass hats that Napoleon always wears in history-text pictures. A real one. Even better, you could buy a replica in the gift shop.

[BOSSHOG]

4. They do a heckuva good job

in their endeavors.

Better watch out, the NFL might charge you a fine for displaying WHO DAT with a fleur de lis.

[KamaAina]

5. But what will the Indy museum do without its painting?

People are just gonna have to stare at blank walls for three months, I guess. :P

[BOSSHOG]

6. Argh, Argh, Argh

Hey Kama, Who Dats have gone insane this week. Thousands of Men led by Bobby Hebert marched through the city yesterday in dresses in tribute to Buddy D.

[BEZERKO]

7. And whatever happened to

Happy Feller?