Mellody Hobson and George Lucas talk with WSJ Magazine about the creation of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, set to open in 2026 in Los Angeles, as well as the sale of Lucasfilm to Disney.

In tribute to visual storytellers like these, Lucas, 81, built what he calls a temple. The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, due to open next year in South Los Angeles, will showcase a sprawling lineage of artists that the filmmaker feels deep kinship with, from stone-age cave painters to masters of futuristic fantasy. At the core of the museum’s holdings is a collection Lucas started 60 years ago with the comic art he could afford in college. Among the 40,000-plus pieces are 160 works by Norman Rockwell, whose vignettes of American life are the epitome of narrative art for Lucas. He’s organizing galleries around themes like family, love, work and play, with artworks that explore the myths and stories that bind society, he says.

Bringing the museum to life has been a 15-year crusade beset by all kinds of challenges, from cities rejecting his proposal, to upheavals over who would curate the museum, to criticism that he was making a shrine to himself.

Lucas scoffs at that. “I’m making a museum for what I call the orphaned arts,” he says, citing the snobbery that has excluded the illustrators, cartoonists and other commercial artists he’s championing from institutions of fine art. His museum is about “the art people respond to in the real world.”

Read the article in full here, and watch Mellody Hobson in The Job Interview with WSJ, sharing more about the creation to the museum, her marriage to filmmaker George Lucas and writing Oprah Winfrey fan mail.

Find out more about the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, scheduled to open in 2026, at the official website here.

Image: Deanna and Ed Templeton for WSJ. Magazine

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