![]() ![]() A decade later it was Cesar Pelli who led the expansion. ![]() ![]() During the ’50s and ’60s, Philip Johnson was in charge of its metamorphosis. Opened in 1939, its walls have entertained hundreds of millions of visitors while evolving, in shape and in size, by the hands of the world's most celebrated architects. Much like Paris's Louvre, or London's National Gallery, MoMA is a name that's synonymous with world-class art. MoMA-which closed its doors on June 15 to complete a $450 million makeover-is, after all, the home base for the modernist movement and the very embodiment of cultural currency. When crowds push their way into the newly renovated Museum of Modern Art on October 21, the expectations will be sky-high. ![]()
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