Macklemore has taken up a new craft. The Grammy-winning rap artist recently told fans he is working on becoming a magician and will even be dropping a first-of-its-kind album that combines his love ...

“Wonder is emotional, not just mechanical,” the president of The Magic Circle said. By Victor Mather When David Penn performs onstage, he does what magicians have done for hundreds of years: He makes ...

In a brightly coloured shipping container in east London, Rubens Filho is asking me to pick a card. “Any card,” he says, fanning the pack out face down. “And don’t worry, you can show me. That’s not ...

Magic is one of the oldest forms of entertainment, and much of its enchantment is said to rely on the audience not knowing how the tricks are done. However, while magicians swear to keep their secrets ...

At the “magic Olympics,” magicians from around the world compete to be deemed the world’s best. To win, they must fool each other. Every three years magicians from around the world compete in the ...

Growing up, Katrina Kroetch didn’t know girls could be magicians. She watched David Copperfield and Criss Angel but never saw a woman in a magic show except as an assistant. When she was 18, she was a ...

Magicians have long been masters of mind games, turning our brain’s quirks and blind spots into moments of pure astonishment. But magic isn’t just for show – it’s become a powerful tool in the ...

For thousands of years, magicians have mixed technology, psychology, and performance to ingeniously hack people’s concepts of reality. But when it comes to creating ...

It is said that magicians never reveal their tricks. Now a secret society is exposing what's hidden up their sleeves in an attempt to draw in new members. Salem, Mass., is where Harry Houdini famously ...

In my last article, on the history of magic, I compared magic to religion and science, but without attempting a precise definition of magic. On the assumption that certain entities can exert a hidden ...