George Lucas Museum Lays Off 14% of Staff Targeting 2026 Opening
The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, the museum founded by George Lucas and his wife, Mellody Hobson, laid off 15 full-time employees last week, the Los Angeles Times reported, including people from the education and public programming team. Moreover, seven part-time, on-call employees had their roles “eliminated”, the paper added. The layoffs amount to 14% of the staff. The scene, which took place last Thursday morning, was described as “shocking and chaotic” by two sources to the LA Times. One of the people laid off was the museum’s curator of film programs, Bernardo Rondeau, who was not at the premises when it happened. Instead, the news was brought up to him while at the Cannes Film Festival. He posted on LinkedIn: “As of today, my role as Curator, Film Programs at the Lucas Museum of...