Lucas Museum Will Erect Permanent Fences Around its Plaza, Undercutting its Rhetoric of Accessibility

An expansive public plaza surrounding Los Angeles’s recently opened Lucas Museum of Narrative Art will be permanently fenced off, reports the Los Angeles Times. The plaza around the museum, founded by filmmaker George Lucas and his wife Mellody Hobson, “was always meant to be a generous civic space,” the Times notes, adding that architect Ma Yansong called it “gateway” between the museum and the city.This past weekend, the first days the museum was open to the publi