Halloween celebrations have just begun

Official All Hallow’s Eve will be held tonight:

US: Love-making skeletons, a parade in Greenwich Village, haunted houses and parties of all sorts await New Yorkers celebrating Halloween starting this weekend.

Though the official All Hallow’s Eve will be held Monday night, the last day of October, New Yorkers have already joined other Americans in beginning celebrations with traditional pumpkin, cobweb and giant skeleton decorations strewn across houses and buildings.

On Fifth Avenue, French sculptor Jean-Marc Laroche has decked the windows of the Museum of Sex with his “Lovers from the Hereafter” fantasy of eternal life, complete with skeletons embracing one another in intertwining Kama Sutra positions.

“They are themselves quite joyful and they thumb their noses at death and present the afterlife as a roll in the hay,” Laroche said in a statement about the highly realistic human-sized sculptures made of varnished resin and jointed with an invisible steel framework. New York also offers up a serving of haunted houses, like the Bartow-Pell Mansion in the Bronx, where paranormal investigator Dan Sturges will lead a candlelight walk to a cemetery Saturday to discuss investigations of ghostly happenings at the mansion.

This year’s theme is “the i of the beholder,” complete with giant projected pictures of eyeballs.

AFP