Lucas Museum of Narrative Art goes beyond 'Star Wars'
The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles is set to open on September 22, showcasing a diverse collection of populist art, illustrations, and comics. Founder George Lucas emphasizes that the museum aims to elevate commercial and narrative art to the same status as fine art.
Why it matters
It represents a significant cultural shift in how commercial and pop-culture art is curated and valued within the traditional museum landscape.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The new Lucas Museum of Narrative Art will serve “Star Wars” fans what they crave, but the saga George Lucas spawned represents just one small corner of the galaxy of creative work within the walls of the Los Angeles institution he calls a “temple to the people’s art.”
The purpose of the palace that has become his life’s work since he sold Lucasfilm to Disney in 2012 is to take the work of populist painters, commercial illustrators, comic artists and paperback cover-creators and treat it with a reverence normally reserved for Rembrandts.
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