Author: Peter Kiefer / Source: The Hollywood Reporter
In January, George Lucas announced that he had selected Los Angeles to be home to the $1.5 billion museum.
Surrounded by elected officials and his old friend Steven Spielberg, George Lucas on Wednesday presented the clearest vision to date of the new Lucas Museum of Narrative Art at a groundbreaking ceremony held at Los Angeles’ Exposition Park where the billion-dollar, space-age-like structure is set to rise.
“Yes, this is an art museum, but I’m trying to position it as an anthropological museum,” said Lucas in remarks made to several hundred people on hand, including surprise guest Spielberg, who was seated in the front row. “In my feeling, popular art is an insight into a society and what they aspire to be; what they really want and what they really are — it is telling the narrative of their story, their history and their belief system.”
Lucas and his wife Mellody Hobson announced last year that they had selected Los Angeles over Lucas’ hometown of San Francisco as the location for the museum. They chose Exposition Park due to its proximity to dozens of high schools, the University of Southern California — Lucas’ alma mater — and the fact that the parcel of land is easily accessible by public transportation.
The 300,000 square-foot building will house a collection of galleries and exhibition spaces displaying original works of art from world-renowned artists like David Hockney and Norman Rockwell, along with digital technologies. The museum will also feature daily film screenings and…
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