The forthcoming Lucas Museum of Narrative Artwork in Los Angeles introduced on Tuesday that building delays for its museum campus have pushed the museum’s projected opening from 2023 to 2025.
Provide chain points exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic are among the many causes of the delay, Lucas Museum Director Sandra Jackson-Dumont instructed the Los Angeles Occasions.
The transfer is the newest shift within the challenge’s timeline, which launched in March 2018 with an purpose to open in 2021. Prior building delays compelled museum management in April of final 12 months to maneuver the establishment’s opening to 2023.
Cofounded by George Lucas and Mellody Hobson, who’re featured on this 12 months’s version of the ARTnews checklist of High 200 collectors, the museum will deal with narrative works that vary from work and illustrations to pictures, movie, animation, and digital artwork.
Building of the five-story flagship’s intricately designed exterior floor, led by Ma Yansong of MAD Architects, is already underway, Jackson-Dumont stated.
Regardless of the museum’s delayed opening, its assortment continues to broaden. Among the many Lucas Museum’s 2022 acquisitions are prints, pictures, and work by Laura Aguilar Jaime Hernandez, Robert Colescott, Kerry James Marshall, Frida Kahlo, and Alice Neel.
Provide chain points have additionally affected different main U.S. museums present process growth and renovation. In March, the Albright-Knox Artwork Gallery in Buffalo noticed delays and rising prices leading to an estimated $12 to $20 million improve within the estimated finances for its $168 million growth. In July the Bruce Museum in Greenwich prolonged a short lived closure because of provide chain points that delayed its $60 million multiyear growth challenge, which started in 2019.