Art in One Form or Another

March Madness

In the spirit of tomorrow's tip-off of the NCAA March Madness tournament, Modern Art Notes is having some fun with its own tournament. Welcome to the annual America's Greatest Living American Abstract Painter Tournament. Each day this week, the site will host match ups to vote on. Today's head-to-head  features:

• No. 1 Ellsworth Kelly vs. No. 32 Pat Steir
• No. 8 Christopher Wool vs. No. 25 Sam Gilliam
• No. 9 Mary Heilmann vs. No. 24 George Condo
• No. 16 Louise Fishman vs. No. 17 Ross Bleckner

Art Museum Super Bowl Bet is On

The art world has caught Super Bowl fever. A proposed bet between the Indianapolis Museum of Art and the New Orleans Museum of Art is heating up as NOMA director E. John Bullard is throwing down for his Saints betting the three-month loan of its $4 million Renoir painting, Seamstress at Window, circa 1908, which is currently in the big Renoir exhibitionin Paris. Will Indy up the ante? (via MAN).

From Waterfalls to Skateboards

Mekanism Skateboards teamed up with Olafur Eliasson to create a distortive, reflective skateboard (via PSFK).