Officially, SB Nation is the largest and fastest-growing network of fan-centric online sports communities. But really it’s all just an elaborate ruse to position ourselves as the Internet’s No. 1 news source whenever art museums make Super Bowl bets. (If you don’t remember last year’s wager between the Indianapolis Museum of Art and the New Orleans Museum of Art -- the IMA risked a Turner against a Claude Lorrain -- you can re-familiarize yourself here and here.)
2011 Super Bowl Bets Get Artsy As Pittsburgh, Milwaukee Museums Make Renoir Wager
This year, it's the Carnegie Museum of Art and the Milwaukee Museum of Art betting on the Steelers and Packers in Super Bowl XLV, respectively. And there ain't no bet like an art museum bet: if the Steelers win, the MMA will temporarily loan "Boating on the Yerres" by Gustav Caillebotte to the Carnegie; if the Packers win, then the Carnegie sends Pierre-Auguste Renoir's "Bathers with Crab" to Milwaukee.
Bring it on:
"I'm confident we will be enjoying the Renoir from the Carnegie Museum of Art very soon," [Daniel] Keegan, [the director of the Milwaukee Museum of Art,] said. "I look forward to displaying it where the public can enjoy it and be reminded of the superiority of the Green Bay Packers."
It’s already been broughten. Time to fire back, Carnegie.
“In Pittsburgh, we believe trash talk is bad form,” said Lynn Zelevansky, the Henry J. Heinz II director of the Carnegie Museum of Art. “We let the excellence of our football team -- and our collection -- speak for itself. It will be my great pleasure to see the Caillebotte from the Milwaukee Museum of Art hang in our galleries.”
I imagine this is exactly how Kanye West gambles, by the way.
(via SB Nation Pittsburgh)
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