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# New Orleans Museum Gloats Over Super Bowl Bet with Indianapolis
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/nola-indianapolis-super-bowl/
- Published: 2010-03-24T20:36:12.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T15:41:25.000Z
- Description: “This painting is on loan to the New Orleans Museum of Art for three months from the Indianapolis Museum of Art, which has the largest collection of Turner’s work outside Great Britain. The loan is a result of a Super Bowl wager between the directors of the two art museums …
- Author: Hrag Vartanian
- Tags: News, #image-position-hidden, Indianapolis Museum of Art, J.M.W. Turner, New Orleans, New Orleans Museum of Art, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-11-17 09:23 (2009-2011)

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Victory is sweet ain’t it. (via jonno(dotcom))

This is funny – via [jonno(dotcom)](http://jonnodotcom.tumblr.com/post/470670860/this-painting-is-on-loan-to-the-new-orleans?ref=hyperallergic.com)’s always entertaining Tumblog:

> “This [painting](http://www.imamuseum.org/art/collections/artwork/fifth-plague-egypt-turner-joseph-mallord-william-0?ref=hyperallergic.com) is on loan to the New Orleans Museum of Art for three months from the Indianapolis Museum of Art, which has the largest collection of [Turner](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FM.%5FW.%5FTurner?ref=hyperallergic.com)’s work outside Great Britain. The loan is a result of a [Super Bowl wager](http://jonnodotcom.tumblr.com/post/357879315/superbowlart?ref=hyperallergic.com) between the directors of the two art museums, with the losing team’s hometown museum lending a major work to the winning team’s museum. GEAUX SAINTS! WHO DAT MUSEUM!” (from the wall label for J.M.W Turner’s “The Fifth Plague of Egypt,” now on view at the New Orleans Museum of Art)

More info on the initial bet [here](http://www.artsjournal.com/man/2010/01/art%5Fmuseum%5Fdirector%5Fsuper%5Fbowl.html?ref=hyperallergic.com).

**UPDATE: A complete view of the label is on Rebecca Rebouché’s** [**blog**](http://rebeccarebouche.blogspot.com/2010/03/art-in-bloom.html?ref=hyperallergic.com)**.**