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Paris’ Fondation Louis Vuitton collection was designed according to four axes: contemplative, subjective expressionist, Pop art, and music/sound. Following two hangings—the first in the autumn of 2014, which exhibited a limited set of works representative of the four categories and from the field of architecture, and the second taking place in the winter of 2014 until the spring of 2015, adhering to the expressionist and contemplative axes—the third part of the collection was inaugurated on June 3, 2015, bringing together Pop art and sound works, which are to be exhibited until October 2015.

For the third phase of its inaugural program, Paris’ Louis Vuitton Foundation is mounting an exhibition of major works that have been “key to the development of modernity, and have changed the course of art history in the twentieth century.” Keys to a Passion will be held from April 1 to July 6, 2015.

The Louis Vuitton Foundation, which opened in October 2014, was established by the French multinational luxury goods conglomerate, LVMH Group. It is housed in a building commissioned by LVMH’s chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Bernard Arnault, and designed by the Pritzker Prize-winning architect, Frank Gehry. Located in the Bois de Boulogne district, the diaphanous glass building spans 126,000 square feet and features eleven exhibition galleries presenting modern and contemporary works from the LVMH Group’s collection as well as masterpieces from Arnault’s personal holdings. The Foundation also hosts temporary exhibitions, artist commissions, multi-disciplinary performances, and events.

The much-anticipated Louis Vuitton Foundation (Fondation Louis-Vuitton), in Paris, is now open to the public. The massive museum for contemporary art, designed by Frank Gehry, is a spectacle: The gallery spaces are contained in cement blocks covered by massive, curved pieces of glass. Set in a public park in the Bois de Boulogne in the western part of the city, the structure seems to alight on the earth like a spaceship from the future.

Bernard Arnault, the 65-year-old chairman and chief executive of LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton (MC:FP), commissioned the museum, and both he and the 85-year-old Gehry hope this building will be an indisputably positive contribution to a complicated legacy.