The Big, Sudden, Unexpected Joy of Encountering Modernity

The air smelled sweetly of spring, on the last morning of Paris Fashion Week. At 9:45, black cars were already snaking, two deep, in the driveway of the Frank Gehry-designed Fondation Louis Vuitton, which floats like a ghost ship in the Bois de Boulogne. People walked around Gehry's pool, with its artificial rapids, behind ... More