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I would personally veto any museum that had a design requirement of "provide enough space to exhibit anything and everything that George Lucas wants to show off
by logfromblammo 10y ago
I would personally veto any museum that had a design requirement of "provide enough space to exhibit anything and everything that George Lucas wants to show off."
If he wants the museum to happen, he'd better withdraw his big, fat thumb from the pie a little, and let someone else determine just how much of his personal art collection qualifies as "cultural treasure".
You have to figure that there's at least one person in every major American city who has seen the Star Wars Christmas Special, in addition to all the people who "have a baaaaad feeling about this," after seeing the movies he has directed personally, and the "enhancements" made to certain works for their DVD release.
That's why all the cities want to know what exactly he's going to put into the museum, and replying "that's proprietary information" just raises a huge, Hutt-sized warning flag over the whole project.
Besides that, I just visited the Art Institute of Chicago a few days ago, which sort of anchored my expectations for "art museum". No city wants to green light a project expecting "art museum" and end up four years later with "that useless, ugly building full of m-f-ing Gungan codpieces and Ewok hats."
- h4nkoslo 10y agoThe history has been that odd preferences for the content & operation of museums and foundations very rarely outlive the founder, so you're looking at at most ~20 years of purely interior weirdness.
- ghaff 10y agoIt mostly has at the Gardner in Boston but even that's been shaken up a bit recently.
- pmyteh 10y agoThere are some glorious counterexamples, though: the Sir John Soane museum in London is both magnificent and magnificently weird...
- ghaff 10y agoI'm going to have some time in London at the end of January. I haven't been there and may need to check it out.