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An art museum to visit in sneakers

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Clairmont, N. (2026, October 31). An art museum to visit in sneakers. Washington Examiner. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/premium/4782956/an-art-museum-to-visit-in-sneakers/

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Washington Examiner · collected 2026-10-31 · by Nicholas Clairmont

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The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art opened at the end of September in South Los Angeles after an eight-year construction period. George Lucas and his wife Mellody Hobson co-founded the museum, which reportedly cost $1 billion to build. The article argues that traditional art institutions often use complex criteria to exclude ordinary people from understanding or appreciating art, thereby asserting their social status through perceived discernment rather than genuine artistic judgment.
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The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art opened at the end of September 2026 in South Los Angeles after an eight-year construction process. Funded by George Lucas, who also co-founded the museum with his wife, Mellody Hobson, and personally curated most of its exhibits, the project was previously planned for Chicago or San Francisco but ultimately settled in Los Angeles due to various obstacles. Lucas reportedly invested $1 billion into the museum’s creation. The museum is described as "the smartest museum in America," challenging traditional notions of discernment within the art world by making it more accessible and democratic.

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Nicholas Clairmont
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America Chicago Lucas Museum of Narrative Art San Francisco South Los Angeles

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America GPE · 1× Chicago GPE · 1× George Lucas PERSON · 1× Lucas Museum of Narrative Art ORG · 1× Mellody Hobson PERSON · 1× San Francisco GPE · 1× South Los Angeles GPE · 1×

Narrative

The institutional art world likes to think its defining feature is discernment — the ability to distinguish between human creations of high artistic quality and those that are not — but its real purpose is giving the appearance of discernment to assert its high social status.
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The new Lucas Museum of Narrative Art opened at the end of September in South Los Angeles, after a more than eight-year construction process and failed attempts by the Star Wars creator who funded it to site it in Chicago or San Francisco. asserted
who → open → Chicago
George Lucas, who co-founded the museum with his wife, Mellody Hobson, spent a reported $1 billion on its creation and personally took responsibility for most of the curation. asserted
founded → co → curation
The institutional art world likes to think its defining feature is discernment — the ability to distinguish between human creations of high artistic quality and those that are not — but its real purpose is giving the appearance of discernment to assert its high social status. asserted
purpose → like → status
The tools it uses to do this involve an elaborate psychology experiment built around the human desire not to be left out or made to look stupid — basically, various dynamics for social exclusion. asserted
it → use → exclusion
When the art snob says something that is obviously ugly, evil, or badly made is a work of genius, he effectively puts the ordinary listener in a Catch-22, where either disagreeing or agreeing suggests that the snob’s taste gives him the ability to understand beauty more deeply than average. uncertain
taste → say → beauty
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