There is a new museum in Paris, the Fondation Louis Vuitton. Yes, that Louis Vuitton. It has been designed with the unmistakable vision of Frank Gehry. If you have seen the Guggenheim Bilbao, you will recognize this new structure as his work immediately. It sits on the edge of the Bois de Boulogne dominating a parcel of land with its height and expansive breadth. And the presence of flowing water is striking here too,

But despite the extraordinary lines of the museum’s exterior, the interior galleries remain conventional. The rooms are rectangular, the path from one gallery to the next is familiar. One simply engages with the work in one area and moves on in a linear fashion to the next. This is not necessarily a bad thing. The focus, as perhaps it should be, is on the artwork within the museum rather than the museum itself.

However, the absence of originality and reliance on a traditional paradigm, in this regard, is unexpected.