“Lovers Kiss” by Jean-Marc Laroche. This is the only photo from the press release that was appropriate to publish; you’ll have to see the rest of the exhibit for yourself.
Never say that Manhattan’s Museum of Sex doesn’t know how to properly celebrate a holiday. “Lovers from the Hereafter” will end its Halloween-themed month-long run on Friday, November 4th — meaning you only have a few days to check out the life-sized skeletons sculpted out of resin by Jean-Marc Laroche posed in a variety of positions consistent with the museum’s theme.
The exhibit was sponsored by SoHo’s The Evolution Store, which is selling some of Laroche’s pieces that were featured in the museum. So if you like what you see, you can have your very own “Erotic Skeletons #2” for just under $48,000.
The skeletons were caught in flagrante delicto in the Museum’s street-level display, which did not go over well with Catholic League president Bill Donohue, who told the New York Daily News (in an article that has since mysteriously disappeared from the site): “There is an unintended irony here. Those who practice the promiscuous sex that the Museum advocates tend to die prematurely, hence the Freudian slip of using skeletons.”
The Catholic League’s statement on the matter was accompanied by a large picture of two skeletons in the lotus position.
