Lucas Museum's Mix of Kahlo and C-3PO Recalls an Old American Style of Giving

A review of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art frames billionaire filmmaker George Lucas's new institution as a return to an earlier style of American giving. The assessment describes a museum built around storytelling that brings together a Frida Kahlo painting, a C-3PO figure and a Garfield illustration. That combination of fine art and popular culture is presented as core to the museum's approach. The review compares the undertaking to the cultural generosity of wealthy individuals at the turn of the twentieth century, whose fortunes built major public institutions of the era. The framing places the museum's opening within that longer tradition of private wealth funding shared cultural spaces.

With reporting from The Hollywood Reporter.