George Lucas, the “Star Wars” film-maker and co-founder of the museum, will take on a programming role following Sandra Jackson-Dumont’s departure

The $1bn institution founded by Star Wars creator George Lucas and his wife, Starbucks chairwoman Mellody Hobson, is taking its futuristic shape in Los Angeles’s Exposition Park

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Gearing up for 2023 opening, Lucas Museum adds works by Frida Kahlo, Robert Colescott and Artemisia Gentileschi to filmmaker's Norman Rockwell trove

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Although its building is still under construction, the institution is partnering with Lacma on a one-day film programme in South Los Angeles next month

Sandra Jackson-Dumont will take over in January as leader of George Lucas’s $1bn project in Los Angeles

The work will first goes on loan in Massachusetts and possibly elsewhere