Ricky Jay in a conversation with
artist Tom Sachs in the May issue of Interview magazine

Hokum That Stands the Test of Time By Michael Kimmelman
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The New Yorker says “Coincident with the Met's ‘Perfect Medium’ show, the scholar and magician Ricky Jay presents a selection of related items from his vast collection of broadsides, posters, books, photographs, and ephemera pertaining to spiritualist amusements and deceptions. Slides from a presentation that Harry Houdini made in 1924 (though he desperately wanted to believe in mediums, he always figured out their tricks) demonstrate a few methods for spirit writing, materializations, and the like; this is accompanied by a recording of Houdini himself and a reading of his debunking lecture and commentary by the silver-tongued Jay.”

L.A. Times Critics Choice
Ricky Jay & His 52 Assistants

“For the first time in more than a decade, legendary magician Ricky Jay — considered by many the best sleight-of-hand artist on Earth — brings his Obie-winning show, directed by his longtime associate David Mamet, back to the Southland. The ‘52 assistants’ of the title are a deck of cards — items that Jay manipulates to stunning effect in this must-see entertainment.”
— F. Kathleen Foley
November 24, 2006

From the current issue of Zembla, the British literary magazine, which features an interview and an 8-page spread on Ricky Jay’s book “Extraordinary Exhibitions".

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Jay deals out best show in town

by Doug Krentzlin

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Read the review by Peter Marks from The Washington Post

Illusionist Ricky Jay: An Ace in the Role
from The Washington Post, 10 May 2005
by Peter Marks

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Love and Theft
Video by Bob Dylan
Featuring Ricky Jay

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