The House From Psycho Is Suddenly Sitting on Top of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Earlier this year, the Art Institute of Chicago built an amazing livable model of Van Gogh's "Bedroom" to promote an exhibition of the artist's work. Now, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has put up a roof installation that has everyone talking—a structure called PsychoBarn, by British artist Cornelia Parker, that recreates the sinister mansion from Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film Psycho, but with a rural, barn-like exterior.

"For this summer's Roof Garden Commission, Cornelia has developed an astonishing architectural folly that intertwines a Hitchcock-inspired iconic structure with the materiality of the rural vernacular," said Sheena Wagstaff, the museum's Leonard A.