La biblioteca digital de ilusionismo
Our dear friend the brilliant magician Luis Piedrahita recently told us about La biblioteca digital de ilusionismo (Digital Library of Illusion) – a fascinating digital resource for magicians and scholars. At the moment, this library offers access to 62 fully scanned volumes divided into categories: Card Magic, Mentalism, Prestidigitation, White Magic, Magic History, and Scientific [...]
Genii Magazine and Ask Alexander Research Contest!
In honor of Erdnaseum and the collaboration between Genii Magazine and Conjuring Arts, we are offering a contest to subscribers of Genii Magazine. The prize is two decks of cards, and the joy and frivolity of searching through Genii on Ask Alexander! These decks will be shipped post paid anywhere in the world. The challenge [...]
EMC 2011 and Ask Alexander Research Contest No. 2!
Greetings from Conjuring Arts! As you may have read, our last contest was answered correctly by Frank Yuen (Congratulations sir!) and, in order to give everyone more incentive to use Ask Alexander and find glorious information, another contest is in order! The prize remains the same (ten decks of our playing cards postage paid), although [...]
EMC 2011 and Ask Alexander Research Contest
Hello Team! As a special treat for EMC 2011 attendees, we are offering a contest! Everyone that registered for the convention before July 4th has received special EMC 2011 level access to Ask Alexander. The challenge will be to use Ask Alexander to answer the question posted below as quickly as possible. The first person [...]
Gibecière Vol. 6, No. 2 Shipped!
Gibecière Vol. 6, No. 2 Our latest issue has arrived and is on its way to our subscribers! This issue completes the first dozen issues and marks the end of our 6th volume. Happy anniversary Gibecière! As usual, we have a rich variety of contributions from a number of authors to make for some fascinating reading. [...]
Gibecière Vol. 6, No. 2 to Ship July 15th!
Our 12th issue of Gibecière is now on its way to us…and will quickly be on its way to you! This issue features another great translation by Lori Pieper of an important work, Attractive treasury of curiosities by Diego Joseph Zamorano. Recently we published an English translation of Pablo Minguet è Yrol’s Engaños a ojos vistas (Deceptions [...]
De viribus quantitatis by Luca Pacioli
We are very pleased to offer a few copies of a very elegant publication of De viribus quantitatis for sale on our website. This important treatise represents what could be the first book largely devoted to magic and one of the very first places to describe card tricks, as well as numerous other principles. This [...]
Gibecière Vol. 6, No. 1 Shipping Now!
We are pleased to inform you that the latest issue of Gibecière has arrived at Conjuring Arts, and we are shipping them to subscribers now! Thank you very much for your support, and we hope you enjoy what we have put together. This issue of the journal features Jim Steinmeyer, Mitsunobu Matsuyama, Stephen Minch, Bill [...]
Some Memories of Charles Reynolds by Ricky Smith
It is with great sadness that we write of Charles Reynolds’ recent passing. Brilliantly knowledgeable in magic perfomance and history, always friendly and charming, with his hat and cane (when he remembered them), Charles was persistently full of life all the moments he shared with us. While many have written wonderful thoughts about his life’s [...]
Gibecière Vol. 6, No. 1
Gibecière Vol. 6, No. 1 The 11th issue of Gibecière is finished, and we are very excited. This particular issue contains a real treat as we have finally persuaded the delightful Jim Steinmeyer to contribute an article, an addition to our list of contributors that we have been hoping for since the journal began. Additionally [...]
