{"id":43904,"date":"2017-01-11T15:29:44","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T14:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/?p=43904"},"modified":"2017-01-11T15:29:44","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T14:29:44","slug":"george-lucas-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/george-lucas-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"George Lucas er\u00f6ffnet ein milliardenschweres Museum in LA"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"George A rendering of the George Lucas Museum<\/p>\n

It’s easy to assume\u00a0that George Lucas spends all his time being sad about losing Star Wars. In fact, the “American Graffiti” director has been\u00a0working on\u00a0a wholly new project, with his Museum of Narrative\u00a0Art\u00a0now planned to go ahead in Exposition Park, Los Angeles. Don Bacigalupi\u00a0will be president, with\u00a0Judy Kim\u00a0serving as deputy director. With a 10,000 piece collection including works by Norman Rockwell, Carl Banks and Alberto Vargas, Lucas is using both his acquisitions and his large wealth, aided in large part by selling his franchise for $5 billion, in order to start\u00a0the non-profit museum. As a statement from his website writes<\/a>:
\n“Mr. Lucas\u2019s collection provides the seed from which the Museum\u2019s collection will grow for decades to come. From that foundation, the curators of the Museum will build a collection that will unfold like any great work: with greater depth and breadth, and diversity in both media and maker, and characters as varied as the tellers.”<\/p>\n

What Can We Expect From The George Lucas Museum?<\/h3>\n

If anyone knows something about narrative in art, it’s George Lucas. His Star Wars series\u00a0were heavily influenced by Joseph Campbell and his concept of the monomyth. It expertly pasted together several different strands of narrative\u00a0conventions to tell a holistic, mythical story. Given that the series has inspired\u00a0a pseudo-religion<\/a>, it’s safe to say that Lucas is a consummate\u00a0thinker and storyteller. Star Wars,\u00a0<\/em>with its cyclical structure,\u00a0works as an excellent introduction to how narrative conventions work. Likewise, the museum, with a focus on juxtaposing diverse\u00a0pieces against each other, will see him expanding that theme. The inclusivity is exciting, making all art part of an accessible whole. As the museum says, it will have an “unprecedentedly expansive and open definition of art, acknowledging that all visual art forms can make a meaningful connection with viewers.”
\nHigh art\u00a0snobs beware, as it\u00a0“will be a barrier free museum where artificial divisions between \u201chigh\u201d art and \u201cpopular\u201d art are absent, allowing you to explore a wide array of compelling visual storytelling.” John Berger, who died recently<\/a>, would be proud in seeing such a democratic approach to museum going.
\nThe Museum, though looking to expand, will initially focus on three different strands:<\/p>\n