Met's Roof Garden Summer Exhibit: PsychoBarn

The roof garden is part of the entrance fee to the Metropolitan Museum of Art (pay what you want), and will run from Tuesday, April 19th through October 31st. 

Enjoy light fare and cocktails in an informal, outdoor setting with panoramic views of Manhattan. The Roof Garden Café and Martini Bar is open from early May through October, weather permitting.

The project’s full name is “Transitional Object: (PsychoBarn),” assembled at two-thirds of the scale of a real house and with only two finished sides, just like the film set of the 1960 Hitchcock film “Psycho” that gave the artist Cornelia Parker part of her inspiration.

The back of the project — which the artist Cornelia Parker doesn’t hide, but rather emphasizes — reveals it as fake, supported by metal scaffolding and tamped down with large black water tanks, providing ballast so it won’t blow over in a strong wind.“When you round the corner, you might think it’s the house from ‘Psycho,’ or you might think it’s a red barn,” Ms. Parker said. “It’s cognitive dissonance. You oscillate in between two things — one is cozy, the other malign.” She added, “It’s not a one-liner.” 

For more information as well as the museum's hours for all exhibits, click here.

Photo credit: Robyn Roth-Moise