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February 3, 2010  |  Art aficionados will want to stay tuned to the Super Bowl this Sunday to see which team's regional art museum takes home the prize (a three-month artwork loan). On the line in this friendly wager—instigated by art blogger Tyler Green—are the New Orleans Museum of Art's Ideal View of Tivoli by Claude Lorrain and the Indianapolis Museum of Art's The Fifth Plague of Egypt by J.M.W. Turner. Get updates here.

New blog Unhappy Hipsters is generating a lot of buzz with its picture perfect modern interiors ripped from the pages of Dwell and snarky captions. A good reminder that "less is a bore."

"Eames, Aalto—her most significant relationships were with dead designers." --Unhappy Hipsters

On Saturday the Museum of Modern Art hosts Art Book Swap New York in collaboration with Regency Arts Press and the New Art Dealers Alliance. The public is invited to swap their books for ones donated by publishers, distributors, and galleries. Details here.

The Columbus Dispatch reports that the Ronald C. Sloter mansion and art collection, which includes an entire room of Rookwood ceramic tiles, was given to the Columbus College of Art and Design. The house and its contents will be sold to create an endowed scholarship in Sloter's name. Read the full story here.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art launched a new blog this week called Now at the Met, which bills itself as an access point for the museum's current activities and events. Director Tom Campbell says he will be contributing to it.

Images from above: The Fifth Plague of Egypt by J.M.W. Turner, 1800. Courtesy of the Indianapolis Museum of Art. An interior from Dwell, December 2004. Courtesy of Unhappy Hipsters. Columbus College of Art & Design president Denny Griffith photographed at the Ronald C. Sloter mansion. Courtesy of the Dispatch/photo by Kyle Robertson.