On this week's edition of The Forum, Tim Marlow and guests discuss magic and misdirection. They explore if there is any place for magic in today’s technologically advanced world and ask whether ...

A magician must make a trick look effortless, but it's very unlikely that anything is casual or spontaneous in a magic show. Just as you might go to a ballet and imagine the sweat and tears needed to ...

Sean Gandini’s intricate and artful show about magic shows plays with the audience and the malleable sense of reality There’s a quote, Sean Gandini tells us, from the French father of modern conjuring ...

The art of magic offers a fascinating insight into the psychology of reality and perception The magician picks up a coin, conceals it in his hand and, after a magical gesture, it mysteriously ...

Is magic all in the mind? A major new exhibition at the Wellcome Collection will seek to find the answer by exploring its relationship with psychology. Smoke and Mirrors: The Psychology of Magic will ...