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Footpaths and garden crossings, where that gated surface parking lot had been, aim to knit the area’s streets and sidewalks. 0.950

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ History , Los Angeles , Urban Development

Simplified: The Lucas Museum was built on a site that was previously a gated surface parking lot.

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Los Angeles is also home to the Getty, the Huntington, the Norton Simon, the Hammer and the Broad. 1.000

👤 Michael Kimmelman 📋 News Article 🏷️ Art , Los Angeles , Museums

Simplified: Los Angeles is home to the Getty, the Huntington, the Norton Simon, the Hammer, and the Broad museums.

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The Guggenheim proselytized the mystic healing powers of Wassily Kandinsky, Bach organ chorales and incense. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Art , History , Museums

Simplified: The Guggenheim Museum promoted the mystic healing powers of Wassily Kandinsky, Bach organ chorales, and incense.

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But when the Presidio’s trustees balked, Lucas and Hobson looked to Chicago, Hobson’s hometown, hiring Ma to design a museum for a lakefront site. 1.000

👤 Michael Kimmelman 📋 News Article 🏷️ Chicago , Museums , Project History

Simplified: After the San Francisco proposal failed, George Lucas and Mellody Hobson hired Ma Yansong to design a museum for a lakefront site in Chicago.

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The exterior is clad in 1,271 school-bus-size, hand-finished, fiberglass-reinforced polymer panels, combined like puzzle pieces, manufactured by a shipbuilding company in the Bay Area. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Construction , Architecture , Museums

Simplified: The Lucas Museum's exterior is clad with 1,271 fiberglass-reinforced polymer panels manufactured by a shipbuilding company in the Bay Area.

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After a second pass fizzled in the Bay Area, this time for a site on Treasure Island, Lucas and Hobson turned to Los Angeles. 1.000

👤 Michael Kimmelman 📋 News Article 🏷️ Los Angeles , Museums , Project History , San Francisco

Simplified: A proposal to build the Lucas Museum on Treasure Island in the Bay Area also failed, after which the project moved to Los Angeles.

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Ma came up with a volcano-shaped design rising from the flat plains of the Windy City, which ran aground after a Chicago nonprofit parks preservation group sued, tying the project up in the courts. 1.000

👤 Michael Kimmelman 📋 News Article 🏷️ Law , Chicago , Museums , Project History

Simplified: The Chicago museum project was halted by a lawsuit from a nonprofit parks preservation group.

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A separate pavilion contains a library with Arts and Crafts furnishings, of all things, and a student center. 1.000

👤 Michael Kimmelman 📋 News Article 🏷️ Architecture , Museums

Simplified: A separate pavilion at the Lucas Museum contains a library with Arts and Crafts furnishings and a student center.

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The Lucas Museum is his [Ma Yansong's] first major American cultural commission. 0.900

👤 Michael Kimmelman 📋 News Article 🏷️ Biography , Architecture

Simplified: The Lucas Museum is architect Ma Yansong's first major American cultural commission.

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A yellow Naboo N-1 Starfighter dangles from its lobby ceiling. 1.000

👤 Michael Kimmelman 📋 News Article 🏷️ Art , Museums , Star Wars

Simplified: A yellow Naboo N-1 Starfighter is suspended from the lobby ceiling of the museum's library pavilion.

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Over the decades his collection ballooned to include more than 40,000 works by famous comic artists and graphic novelists; film production designers and anime fabulists; golden-age American magazine i... 1.000

👤 Michael Kimmelman 📋 News Article 🏷️ Art , Collectors and Collections

Simplified: George Lucas's art collection grew to over 40,000 works, including pieces by artists such as Frida Kahlo and Thomas Hart Benton.

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He and Hobson first floated the idea to the Presidio in San Francisco in 2010. 1.000

👤 Michael Kimmelman 📋 News Article 🏷️ Museums , Project History , San Francisco

Simplified: In 2010, George Lucas and Mellody Hobson first proposed building their museum at the Presidio in San Francisco.

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Its arrival, across the street from the University of Southern California campus, where Lucas studied film, seems like destiny. 1.000

👤 Michael Kimmelman 📋 News Article 🏷️ Education , Los Angeles , Museums

Simplified: The Lucas Museum is located across the street from the University of Southern California campus, where George Lucas studied film.

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Lucas acquired his first work of art, a V.T. Hamlin “Alley Oop” comic, for a song in the 1970s. 0.950

👤 Michael Kimmelman 📋 News Article 🏷️ Art , Biography , Collectors and Collections

Simplified: George Lucas acquired his first artwork, a V.T. Hamlin 'Alley Oop' comic, in the 1970s.

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Other rooms are devoted to Norman Rockwell paintings, manga art, motherhood and love, among various folksy themes. 0.950

👤 Michael Kimmelman 📋 News Article 🏷️ Art , Museums

Simplified: The Lucas Museum has rooms devoted to Norman Rockwell paintings and manga art, as well as themes of motherhood and love.

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There are two state-of-the-art movie theaters, along with a shop and a cafe tucked into the building’s cinched podium. 1.000

👤 Michael Kimmelman 📋 News Article 🏷️ Architecture , Museums

Simplified: The Lucas Museum contains two movie theaters, a shop, and a cafe.

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The couple have picked up the project’s no-expense-spared tab: more than $1 billion. 1.000

👤 Michael Kimmelman 📋 News Article 🏷️ Finance , Art , Museums

Simplified: George Lucas and Mellody Hobson paid over $1 billion for the Lucas Museum project.

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The 300,000-square-foot goliath was designed by the prominent Chinese architect Ma Yansong and built to house the art collection of the “Star Wars” filmmaker George Lucas and his wife, the businesswom... 1.000

👤 Michael Kimmelman 📋 News Article 🏷️ Art , Architecture , Museums

Simplified: The 300,000-square-foot Lucas Museum was designed by architect Ma Yansong to house the art collection of George Lucas and Mellody Hobson.

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That whopping sum has paid for more than 80,000 square feet of black-box exhibition space on the building’s fourth floor, where Luke Skywalker’s X-34 Landspeeder from Tatooine now idles in a “Star War... 1.000

👤 Michael Kimmelman 📋 News Article 🏷️ Art , Architecture , Museums

Simplified: The Lucas Museum has over 80,000 square feet of exhibition space on its fourth floor, which includes a 'Star Wars' display with Luke Skywalker’s X-34...

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It opens to the public on Sept. 22. 1.000

👤 Michael Kimmelman 📋 News Article 🏷️ Art , Los Angeles , Museums

Simplified: The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art is scheduled to open to the public on September 22.

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