Magic News
Conjuring Arts on NPR!
Our director, Bill Kalush, was recently interviewed by NPR’s Scott Simon with...
Ricky Jay on Funny or Die
Ricky Jay is featured in David Mamet’s “Lost Masterpieces of Pornography”,...
Our Tenth Gibecière!
Gibecière Vol. 5, No. 2 The Summer 2010 Issue of Gibecière is en route to the presses! For...
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Curious and New
Impossible Motion
An optical treat! Watch the above video to experience the joy of defying gravity...
Michael Moschen at the Skirball Center
Some of the Conjuring Arts staff and volunteers were very privileged to witness...
3 Year Old Tightrope Walker
A 3 year old girl walks across a tightrope stretched over an enclosure containing...
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Exhibitions
William Zavis Letters by Ricky Smith
The research center holds a vast trove of correspondence between a great number and variety of magicians. One section of the collection comes from William Zavis and is especially valuable for research purposes because he generally kept copies of his outgoing correspondence along with the letters he received. Further, Mr. Zavis worked as a US Foreign... [Read more of this review]
The Bullet Catch by Ricky Smith
Our latest exhibition delves into the Bullet Catch. It traces the feat through several of the different variations performed throughout history along with a detailed story concerning the recent and fantastic demonstration by David Blaine and Bill Kalush of the Carl Skenes’s method. Additionally, we have included a translation of one of the earliest... [Read more of this review]
Jimmy Grippo, A Real Mystery Man by Richard Hatch
This awesome exhibition is loaded with wonderful new details of this grand master of card magic. Be sure not to miss our flash presentation of over 30 photos of Grippo. Many of which have never been published before. View Exhibition // Visit the Gallery Read More →
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