Lucas Announces Opening Installations
George Hughes, Home at Last , 1951. Lucas Museum of Narrative Art It took 45 curators to realize the Geffen Galleries' inaugural installation. The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art will be more of a one-man show. George Lucas is credited as curator for 20 thematic installations planned for the museum's Ma Yansong building, set to open Sep. 22. Last year museum director/CEO Sandra Jackson-Dumont stepped down, followed by chief curator Pilar Tompkins Rivas. Those posts remain vacant. The Lucas will be comparable in size to the Geffen, with over 1200 objects on view across 100,000 sf of exhibition space (v. 1700+ works and 110,000 sf for LACMA's new wing). No surprise: There will be a dedicated space for Star Wars and another for Norman Rockwell. Other artists and illustrators getting solo treatment are Thomas Hart Benton, Frank Frazetta, Jessie Wilcox Smith, N.C. Wyeth, and Maxfield Parrish. Thematic sections will treat manga and anime; murals; documentary photography; children...
