After exploring the galleries, guests gathered on the fifth-floor rooftop for a Nova Sky Stories drone presentation introduced and narrated by Oprah Winfrey and Samuel L. Jackson, according to the same account. Its imagery ranged from the Cave of Altamira to Julie Bell’s The Huntress, the Millennium Falcon and Maxfield Parrish’s Ecstasy. A surprise Black Eyed Peas performance followed, with songs including “Where Is the Love” and “I Gotta Feeling.”
In the supplied remarks, George Lucas argues that a viewer’s emotional response matters when deciding what qualifies as art. Mellody Hobson describes the museum as a “director’s cut,” a revealing metaphor for the personal decisions and persistence behind the project. The official exhibition announcement confirms that George Lucas has collected narrative art for more than 50 years and that the founding collection comprises more than 40,000 works. Collection and exhibitions.
