George Lucas Says Opening Lucas Museum ‘Almost Broke My Will’: ‘It’s Taken So Long to Get Here’ — SkimNews
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- George Lucas previewed the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles on Wednesday, telling media the 17-year project 'almost broke my will' — though he added he's 'fascinated by doing things that people say can't be done.'
- The 300,000-square-foot spaceship-like museum sits next to the L.A. Memorial Coliseum and contains 30+ galleries of Lucas' narrative art collection — Norman Rockwell, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Maxfield Parrish, Frank Frazetta — alongside life-sized Star Wars props.
- Mellody Hobson, Lucas' wife, co-founded the museum, which was designed by Ma Yansong of MAD with Stansec and features landscape architecture by Mia Lehrer; it opens to the public Sept. 22.
- Lucas defined narrative art as 'honoring illustrators, artists who illustrate stories that are already written' — combining images with myths to 'create a society.'
- Beyond Star Wars, the collection spans an original costume from 1939's 'The Wizard of Oz,' a Batman stunt costume from 'The Dark Knight' films, an Indiana Jones statue by Lawrence Noble, and Conan the Barbarian art by Sanjulian.
Why it matters: After 17 years of delays, the Sept. 22 opening plants a 300,000-square-foot cultural institution next to the L.A. Memorial Coliseum — one that elevates illustration, comics, and film props to the same museum tier as Rockwell and Rivera, testing whether narrative art can stand beside traditional fine art in a flagship venue.
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