A-List Gala Flags Lucas Museum’s Bold Case for Pop-Culture as Art
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LA's Lucas Museum of Narrative Art opened with an A-list gala featuring Oprah Winfrey, Harrison Ford, Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Hamill as George Lucas and Mellody Hobson defend a mission to elevate illustration and pop culture as art; a drone light show and a Black Eyed Peas performance capped the night as critics debate the museum’s narrative-art concept and its place in LA’s cultural landscape.
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- Lucas Museum of Narrative Art celebrates opening night with star-studded gala in Exposition Park ahead of public debut ABC7 Los Angeles
- Review | Is George Lucas’s colossal pet project the end of the art museum as we know it? The Washington Post
- San Francisco ‘blew it’: Stars come out for Lucas Museum’s opening night San Francisco Chronicle
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