The Lucas Museum and the debate over what belongs in an art museum
The Los Angeles Times reports that the museum is putting commercial art, comics and pop culture works in conversation with pieces by Frida Kahlo, Pablo Picasso and others.
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The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art is challenging art-world hierarchies, the Los Angeles Times reports, bringing commercial art and pop culture into conversation with works by artists including Mary Cassatt and Vincent van Gogh. The Times frames that approach around a longstanding, fraught question: What belongs in an art museum?
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