The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art is scheduled to open to the public on September 22nd, but the Los Angeles institution’s planned multi-tiered membership models have drawn criticism already. “It is not a good look to say the least, for a billionaire museum founder to be hustling for visitors’ money,” Finkel wrote. Two months later, the Lucas Museum laid off 14 percent of its full-time workforce. In 2020, the Lucas Museum also acquired the Separate Cinema Archive, a collection of over 37,000 artifacts relating to African American cinema. In her column, Finkel added that she found Lucas’s narrative art museum concept to be “imaginative and not bogus.”