NEW YORK CITY -- The Houdini Museum of New York in Manhattan unlocks the life of the greatest magician and escape artist who ever lived. Harry Houdini, whose real name was Erich Weiss, was most ...

In 1998, my father riffled a red deck of playing cards while we attended a family reunion on the outskirts of Bogota, Colombia. He asked me to pick one, and I told him to stop when his fingers reached ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. One of the organization’s first presidents ...

The art of magic and illusion has been written about for ages, dating back to the 16th century when the first book explaining magic tricks was published, and while the city of New York might not be as ...

From Wisconsin to New York, RJ the Magician has followed the showman’s path. He now directs the Houdini Museum of New York. By Corey Kilgannon Two months ago, Rajon Lynch, 23, was teaching magic in ...