Magic Up Close
Fascinating chats with artists from around the globe.Each week, the best magicians in the world travel to 69 Atlantic in Brooklyn, NY to perform hour long sleight of hand shows for only 26 people at a time.
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Yann Frisch: The Shimmering of the World (opens the original)
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Before we even opened 69 Atlantic, we made a wish list of magicians who we would personally love to see perform up-close in an intimate theatre in Brooklyn. Yann Frisch was the name at the top of the list. For the past two years, we’ve been trying our best to gently lure this mercurial French artist to New York City and finally—Mon Dieu—we’ve done it! Yann Frisch is a defining figure in the global landscape of magie nouvelle (new magic)—a contemporary movement that transcends traditional constra
Guy Hollingworth: 100 Years Out of Date (opens the original)
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Elegant, eloquent, dapper and droll, Guy Hollingworth is a sophisticated British gentleman with leading man looks and a delicious secret identity. During the day, Mr. Hollingworth is a successful barrister—a lawyer, an upper-crust, powdered-wig-wearing officer of the King’s Court. But at night, Guy Hollingworth is one of the finest practitioners and innovative creators of sleight of hand in the modern era. America first discovered Guy Hollingworth on NBC's World's Greatest Magic where he perform
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