The Modern’s Windows Go From Clear to Colorful

Danny Meyer’s restaurant The Modern, located in the base of the Museum of Modern Art, opened in 2005, and until just recently, its exterior had been conspicuously absent of art. Though its bar room features a photograph by German artist Thomas Demand, and its dining room provides a view of the museum’s sculpture garden, the restaurant’s large, ground-floor windows on 53rd street have been surprisingly blank.