............"The house"

Walk the streets of New York today and you'll spot a familiar rooftop looming in the skyline. This particular building is far different from the silver skyscrapers stacked behind it. Partly because it's made from a barn; partly because it's the recreation of home from an iconic horror film. British artist Cornelia Parker's "Transitional Object (PsychoBarn)" has opened on the roof garden of the Metropolitan Museum of Art as part of the museum's summer Roof Garden Commission. It's a smaller version of the mansard-roofed Victorian mansion that was home to the Bates family in Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 thriller,Psycho, which itself was inspired by a house in Edward Hopper's 1925 painting, "House by the Railroad," reports the New York Times.