How to explain the durability of Harry Houdini — subject of a new exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York? He died more than 80 years ago in Detroit, yet his fame remains undimmed and unabated.

When Dorothy peered behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz and saw the nuts and bolts that created the ‘Great and Powerful Oz,’ all the magic deflated. We understood, like Dorothy, that the wizard was ...

A century after Harry Houdini thrilled audiences with daring escapes from handcuffs, straitjackets and watery tombs, the legendary magician has conjured a major art museum exhibition that explores his ...

A few months ago, Canadian company SideFX quietly released the 17th "Banshee" version of its bleeding-edge Houdini procedural animation software, which handles all sorts of physics in CGI ...

Will wonders never cease? A century after Harry Houdini thrilled audiences with daring escapes from handcuffs, straitjackets and watery tombs, the legendary magician has conjured a major art museum ...

Hanging upside down, high above a massive crowd of eager onlookers, the great Harry Houdini is writhing within a straitjacket like a mad man. The black-and-white footage is grainy and there's no sound ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Handcuffs, shackles, a torture chamber and straitjacket used by renowned escape artist Harry Houdini will be part of a major exhibit that delves into the life and legend of the ...

A thrilling new exhibition about Harry Houdini pulls off an elaborate trick of its own. “Inescapable: The Life and Legacy of Harry Houdini,” at the Jewish Museum of Maryland through January 2019, ...

I enjoyed your paper’s article “Houdini art props on display” on Oct. 31. One day in April, 1920 Houdini was in Portsmouth, England to do one of his famous escape acts. One of the people watching him ...