by Jen Spota | Sep 29, 2015 | Articles, Magic News, Magicians
The Conjuring Arts Research Center’s own Ricky Smith will be lecturing this Friday, October 2nd at 8pm at Fantasma Magic following the meeting of The Society of American Magicians Parent Assembly #1. Widely respected in underground magic circles, Ricky is an...
by Ricky Smith | Sep 24, 2015 | Articles, Magicians
If you are interested in magic, you’ve come to the right place! The Conjuring Arts Research Center has over 15 thousand books on magic and related fields going back to the 1400s, many that are unavailable elsewhere. Additionally we try to keep up to date on all the...
by David Blaine | Jan 29, 2015 | Articles, Magic News, Magicians
To peer into the future of magic, it helps to start by looking at its past. If I were to perform for you the first known card trick to have been written down, it would be very likely to fool you just as it fooled audiences in Italy in 1478. The techniques behind it...
by Ricky Smith | May 26, 2014 | Exhibitions, Magic News, Magicians
Recently, here at Conjuring Arts, we have been working on transcribing a large file of letters from Ed Marlo to Mel Brown. They span from 1954 to 1991 and are quite fascinating, containing gossip, reviews of books and videos, tricks and sleights, tips and finesses,...
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