Comment | What happened to George Lucas’s vision of a museum for ‘the people’?

So what in the world is Star Wars creator and billionaire art collector George Lucas doing with his much-anticipated Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, set to open here on 22 September? Walmart heir Alice Walton from the start ensured free admission to the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Arkansas, billed as “America’s art museum”. Robert Colescott, George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware:Page from an American History Textbook, 1975 Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, Los Angeles. The Lucas Museum is already beautifully positioned to do this, both through its location and its emphasis on humanistic (also interspecies!) Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California, 1936 Lucas Museum ofNarrative ArtAsked about the decision to charge admission, a spokesperson for the Lucas Museum said the institution “is committed to providing numerous access opportunities”.