Among the stranger bets being waged on Super Bowl Sunday is whether Fergie will wear shorts during the halftime show. Another bets on the color of the winner's Gatorade dump. Those bets aren't strictly legal in most states, but there's nothing to stop a few hometown art museums from making a friendly wager. The Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh has bet a Renoir that the Steelers will win Sunday. The Milwaukee Art Museum took that bet — and put up a rare Caillebotte in return. "Our docents were extremely upset," Milwaukee Art Museum Director Daniel Keegan tells NPR's Linda Wertheimer. "They said, 'How could you possibly think of giving up the Caillebotte?' I said, 'That's the point — we have no intention of giving it up.'" Artsy people are really strange, don't you think?
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Pittsburgh Bets A Renoir On Super Bowl Victory
Among the stranger bets being waged on Super Bowl Sunday is whether Fergie will wear shorts during the halftime show. Another bets on the color of the winner's Gatorade dump. Those bets aren't strictly legal in most states, but there's nothing to stop a few hometown art museums from making a friendly wager. The Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh has bet a Renoir that the Steelers will win Sunday. The Milwaukee Art Museum took that bet — and put up a rare Caillebotte in return. "Our docents were extremely upset," Milwaukee Art Museum Director Daniel Keegan tells NPR's Linda Wertheimer. "They said, 'How could you possibly think of giving up the Caillebotte?' I said, 'That's the point — we have no intention of giving it up.'" Artsy people are really strange, don't you think?
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