Halloween at includes the debut of an outdoor exhibition, "Punch and His Mother Go Shopping," a creation by Robert Taplin, as well as a performance by the Patty Ross choral group 4-5 p.m. on the front lawn and, of course, trick-or-treating taunts 5-8 at the museum's Old Hundred building.
New Haven-based sculptor Robert Taplin has been focusing on an ongoing series of works that portray Punch and his adventures in the contemporary world. Rooted deep on Western mythology, Punch is an Anglicized version of Punchinello, the trickster figure who played a major role in 16th-century Italian commedia dell'arte.
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