Los Angeles Gets Its Own Museum, and the Guest List Includes Van Gogh and Star Wars

The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art opens September 22 in Los Angeles, giving the city a new address built entirely around the art of storytelling. Inside, visitors will find Vincent van Gogh and Frida Kahlo sharing space with underground comics and imagery from Star Wars, a pairing that only makes sense once you consider narrative, not medium or era, as the organizing idea. It is the kind of collection that could only have been assembled by someone who has spent a career moving between fine art and popular myth. For a city that has long supplied the images, having a museum built to house and connect them feels overdue and well earned.

With reporting from Galerie.