Lucas Preview
The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art held a media preview. Some photos and first reactions— Lucas as thought experiment. Imagine a museum where you can see Margaret Keane, Grandma Moses, Charles Addams, Robert Crumb, H. R. Giger, Paul Cadmus, and Banksy—plus anime, Mad magazine, Star Wars robots, and Mexican calendar pin-ups—much of it art that the gatekeepers tell us is bad taste (and they're not exactly wrong). The Lucas invites you to be a flâneur of the world's unruly visual culture and to invent your own means of appreciation. "Star Wars in Motion" gallery 4th Level gallery view. At left is an icon of the dogs-playing-poker genre, Cassius Marcellus Coolidge’s A Pat Hand , 1894 Lucas v. Geffen . It's hard to deny a similarity of vibe. Both are curvy and horizontal, set above the cityscape. The Lucas' main collection installation, on the 4th Level, spans 82,000 sf, compared to 110,000 sf for the Geffen. Both buildings have a randomish layout of t...
