Milwaukee and Carnegie Museums of Art Place Their Super Bowl Bets

As has now apparently become par for the course, the tradition of museums betting art over the outcome of a big game is continuing this week leading up to Sunday’s Super Bowl. Last year, you might recall that the Indianapolis Museum of Art and the New Orleans Museum of Art established a friendly rivalry along with a wager involving pieces by Claude Lorrain and Joseph Mallord William Turner. And to a lesser extent, in that nothing was changing hands, the two architecture critics from the Chicago Tribune and the Philadelphia Inquirer, Blair Kamin and Inga Saffron, respectively, got