On Halloween, the anniversary of his death, Harry Houdini will be back on stage. The Jewish Museum in New York is opening a new exhibition, “Houdini: Art and Magic,” on Oct. 29, and curator Brooke ...

Through the recently digitized scrapbooks of Harry Houdini, you can be transported to the world of 19th-century magic, an era of deception and curiosity about the unknown. Houdini’s “Magicians ...

"If I can open it up then it will be magic, but if I can't it will be tragic," Chanchal Lahiri said before his attempt An Indian magician attempting a Harry Houdini-inspired trick went missing after ...

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Erik Weisz, son of an unsuccessful immigrant rabbi from Hungary, settled in Appleton, Wis., became a world-famous magician and escape artist and changed his name to Harry Houdini. He always liked to ...

"Catch me or I go Houdini." On paper, it sounds like the kind of daring ultimatum Harry Houdini himself would've uttered before disappearing from a straitjacket in midair. But in 2023, these words ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A renowned Indian illusionist who was trying to perform an escape act ...

Famed magician Harry Houdini was one of the 20th century’s biggest celebrities, and remains a global household name to this day. His impossible feats of death-defying escape, otherworldly mystique and ...

In this video, I teach the coin tick that fooled Houdini. Thomas Nelson Downs was a magician in early 1900s. He was very skilled and known as the 'King of Coins'. Many say that Downs "was the first of ...

When vaudeville impresario Martin Beck "discovered" a struggling Harry Houdini in 1899, it was Houdini's ability to escape from handcuffs which caught his attention. Although Houdini was hardly the ...