Editorial: The Lucas Museum is looking better and better. What an error Chicago made.

From The Editorial Board: Chicago made a stupid mistake when it kicked out the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, now rising in Los Angeles.

The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art under construction in Los Angeles on Sept. 6, 2022.

The Lucas Museum said this week that it had acquired Marshall’s 2018 piece, RHYTHM MASTR Daily Strip , an artwork created in response to what Marshall saw as the “absence of black superheroes, characters and environments in mainstream comics.”But there was more. The museum also has announced acquisitions of work from Lucas Cranach the Elder, John Singer Sargent, Weshoyot Alvitre, Ernie Barnes, Jaime Hernandez and Cara Romero, adding to Lucas’ deep Norman Rockwell holdings.

This was all due to a fight over the lakefront site close to the Field Museum. When Mayor Rahm Emanuel left office, he furiously noted that the place Lucas wanted to go remained a “parking lot” .

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