"California Gothic" was how Alfred Hitchcock described the haunted house in his thriller Psycho--a late Victorian with a mansard roof, glimpsed from below, looming on a hill. Starting tomorrow, a ghostly replica of the house will be the silent, uncanny partner to a thousand date nights when Transitional Object (PsychoBarn), British artist Cornelia Parker's striking commission for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Roof Garden, opens to the public. What appears to be a house on first view is reveal...
"California Gothic" was how Alfred Hitchcock described the haunted house in his thriller Psycho--a late Victorian with a mansard roof, glimpsed from below, looming on a hill. Starting tomorrow, a ghostly replica of the house will be the silent, uncanny partner to a thousand date nights when Transitional Object (PsychoBarn), British artist Cornelia Parker's striking commission for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Roof Garden, opens to the public. What appears to be a house on first view is reveal...
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