PsychoBarn on the Met's Roof

It's a marvelous, dramatic installation  by the British artist Cornelia Parker on the roof garden of the Metropolitan Museum in NYC.  Parker  was inspired by the sinister mansion in Alfred Hitchcock's film Psycho (1960), which was itself based on Edward Hopper's painting House by the Railroad. She erected  the PsychoBarn with sidings and other elements from a deconstructed red barn. The first extra photo shows the house (from a different angle) reflected in a large window at the end of the roof garden, and the second extra image is a view of the house from nearby in Central Park.  I spent a good part of the summer anticipating the chance to capture that shot. 

Next I visited the Frick Collection, for a small but superb exhibition centered on their painting of soldiers by Antoine Watteau (1710). A dear school friend of mine (who died of cancer some 25 years ago) wrote his doctoral dissertation on that theme in the work of Watteau, and I was gratified to see it included in the bibliography of the excellent catalogue. 

Finally, I visited the New Museum (downtown, on the Bowery) for an exhibition called "The Keeper" ,  which the museum describes as "dedicated to the act of preserving objects, artworks, and images," and to the passions involved in doing that. Fascinating.