00:00When you look around, your inclination might be to catch up with friends tonight.
00:06We're all artists in awe of each other, but I implore you to soak this in.
00:12Allow these artists to speak to you.
00:16I've had tears in my eyes all day. I've been emotional because I've seen what's gone into this.
00:23I'm very blessed to call George and Melody two of my closest friends, family, in fact.
00:30And for years, I've watched them fight for this place.
00:33They didn't just pass this art off to someone else and say, you take care of it.
00:38George and Mel are in every single detail of this place.
00:43And you want to know how it all started?
00:50Well, a regular college guy named George brought an original alley-oop drawing for $35 from an underground comic network
00:58and one drawing, then he brought another and another, and he blinked.
01:04And 50 years later, he had collected 40,000 pieces of art because these artists need the recognition they deserve,
01:11but also because George and Melody believe that this art is about something bigger.
01:16They believe that narrative art is how we pass down values from generation to generation.
01:23Long before anyone in this room could read, we could understand a picture.
01:27This is right. This is wrong. This is courage, family, justice, joy.
01:32We didn't need words. We looked at the images and what we learned mattered.
01:36It is here to change the way we look at art.
01:40Paris has the Louvre. New York has the Met.
01:44And now, L.A. has its artistic equal.
01:49Now, L.A. has its artistic equal.
01:56This isguil楽.
01:57This is aнюi copyright.
01:57This is a Project ly honoring space where we are the world's interessers 싸un.
01:59This is going to be true.
01:59But this is an Project 0648848, which is a绿 경우 danzafel anyway,
