- Deanna Isaacs
- George Lucas talks museums with Charlie Rose at Chicago Ideas Week
George Lucas was the third and final speaker at the last session of Chicago Ideas Week’s “Edison Talks” event at the Cadillac Palace Theatre on Friday. The event had a pep-fest vibe, with spotlights strafing the audience and the volume turned way up on the Blue Man house band.
Lucas: I’ve collected art ever since college, starting with comic art and moving up to illustrative art, and I realized there was no showcase for this work.
Your website says you want to challenge the way people think about museums.
Originally, in San Francisco, I wanted to build an iconic building. San Francisco said absolutely not. You have to have something that looks it belongs there. So I came here, the first thing I said to Rahm was I warn you, I want an iconic building—something nobody’s ever seen. Something avant-garde, leading edge.
Do you see yourself as a standard bearer for narrative art?
It’s going to be organic architecture. Not a square box.
