00:00Tonight, we have a special visitor, a traveler, who has crossed time and space to be here.
00:08He carries something. Not data, not coordinates.
00:13He carries the oldest thing there is, the stories humans have told and left for us.
00:21Each story has a secret code, a myth that holds a key to human survival and is passed down to
00:27the next generation.
00:28Joseph Campbell said that artists are the myth makers of our day.
00:35As a repository of narrative art, the Lucas Museum holds, protects, and reveals the stories of our common humanity.
00:45Tonight, we have walked through galleries depicting thousands of years of meaning.
00:50Now, we ask you to stand and raise your gaze to the stars to experience a boundless new medium, a
00:57sky story.
00:58Inspired by some of the most iconic works in the museum.
01:02A sky story.
01:04Uh-huh.
01:04Uh-huh.
01:05And we do it collectively because experiencing art connects us.
01:10From prehistoric people who huddled together to worship the animals that they sketched on the walls of caves.
01:17To audiences sitting in a movie theater watching a motion picture.
01:21To friends marveling at a canvas in the L.A. night sky.
01:26The people change, but the stories endure through time and space.
01:32When you look around, your inclination might be to catch up with friends tonight.
01:38We're all artists in awe of each other.
01:40But I implore you to soak this in.
01:44Allow these artists to speak to you.
01:49I've had tears in my eyes all day.
01:52I've been emotional because I've seen what's gone into this.
01:56I'm very blessed to call George and Melody two of my closest friends, family, in fact.
02:02And for years, I've watched them fight for this place.
02:05They didn't just pass this art off to someone else and say, you take care of it.
02:10George and Mel are in every single detail of this place.
02:16And you want to know how it all started?
02:22Well, a regular college guy named George bought an original alley-oop drawing for $35 from an underground comic network.
02:31And one drawing.
02:33Then he bought another.
02:34And another.
02:36And he blinked.
02:36And 50 years later, he had collected 40,000 pieces of art.
02:40Because these artists need the recognition they deserve, but also because George and Melody believe that this art is about
02:47something bigger.
02:49They believe that narrative art is how we pass down values from generation to generation.
02:55Long before anyone in this room could read, we could understand a picture.
02:59This is right.
03:00This is wrong.
03:01This is courage, family, justice, joy.
03:04We didn't need words.
03:06We looked at the images.
03:07And what we learned mattered.
03:08It is here to change the way we look at art.
03:12Paris has the Louvre.
03:14New York has the Met.
03:17And now, L.A. has its artistic equal.
03:41New York has whose experience works in art.
03:42Versus by Levi.
03:42New York and the New York allowed his work out.
03:45Going girl has the only, trying to make our lives.
03:48A straightaway and the New York allowed his life.
03:52Let's see.
03:52Go to her entire book.
03:55And hopefully it is true.
03:57It is now in the book.
03:59What time is absolutely right here.
03:59What time is so horrible?
03:59A great good job.
04:00We can't afford to changest val John Kemp and the Duke.
04:00You are all free.
04:00So, we'll lose.
04:00What time is it.
04:01It's time to get started.
04:01You ask him to win .
04:08Obviously, party has the cost and come of gold.
