With Halloween around the corner – Tuesday, Oct. 31 – we have lots of fun frights for you:
Through Nov. 1, Bonhams auction house is presenting “Dance of Death,” a curated selection of more than 115 works in various media from the collection of the late antique-prints dealer Richard Harris.
After retiring in 2001 from his business in Chicago, Harris began to amass an unusual group of works that he called the “Visual Gateway to the Conversation about Death.” Artists in the selection range from Jan Brueghel the Younger and Albrecht Dürer to Odilon Redon, Robert Mapplethorpe and Jim Dine. The collection stems from what Harris called his “unquenchable curiosity to investigate the visual subject of death,” and it highlights our everlasting quest to make peace with this universal, inevitable part of life. For more, click here.
Fairfield’s BE Chocolate, which just opened its Salon BE Chocolat at the Delamar Greenwich Harbor hotel, has a number of creamy confections for ghosts and goblins here.
Or instead of chocolates, you can give out milkweed packets – that’s like chocolate to monarch butterflies – and help save these pollinators. Order here.
As always, ArtsWestchester in White Plains can be counted on to round up the unusual artistic suspects. Here’s its list of “13 Halloween Events in Westchester for All Ages.”
At 4 p.m. on Halloween, Sándor Szabó, D.M.A. – music director, choirmaster and principal organist at Sacred Heart and Our Lady of Pompeii Roman Catholic churches in Dobbs Ferry – will give an organ recital, featuring a spooky selection that includes Bach’s “Toccata and Fugue in D minor” Saint-Saens’ “Dance Macabre,” Grieg’s “Peer Gynt Suite,” Rimsky-Korsakov’s “The Flight of the Bumble Bee,” Wagner’s “Ride of the Valkyries,” Bovet’s “Fugue on ‘The Pink Panther,’” and Boellman’s “Suite Gothique.” Come in costume for the concert at Sacred Heart Church, 417 Broadway. For more, call 914-693-0119 or info@sh-olp.com.
The Hudson River Museum in Yonkers celebrates Halloweekend and Day of the Dead with family-friendly programs and activities from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 28 and 29. Visitors can explore its haunted historic home on a Gothic Glenview Tour, contribute to its Dia de los Muertos community altar, learn about the stars in the spooky planetarium show, “The Sky Tonight: Night Frights,” create origami jack-o’-lanterns and sugar skull masks to take home in the museum’s Family Art Workshops and meet some scaly friends in a live reptile program, “The Wizard of Lizards.” Come in costume and receive candy throughout the weekend. For more, visit hrm.org.
Through Nov. 12, there’s also “Fall-O-Ween” at New York Botanical Garden. Tickets for its activities are available here.
Finally, for those who enjoy a good fright night in front of the tube, BonusFinder has a list of the jumpiest movies. The 2020 movie “Don’t Listen” was number one, with 27 “jumpscares.”
However you celebrate, have a safe, spooktacular Halloween.
