Robot magician misses out on Magic Circle membership

The robot, called D4RYL, has been trained to perform magic tricks using advanced engineering and AI. Find out more here.

D4RYL, a Robot Magician, Is Rejected by an Elite Magic Club

Wonder is emotional, not just mechanical,” the president of The Magic Circle said. By Victor Mather When David Penn performs ...
CNN

Magic society launches hunt for first female member, expelled for posing as a man

Deception, disguise and finally a disappearance. This might sound like the premise of a magic trick, but it’s actually the story of a woman who managed to fool a male-only, world-famous magic society ...
Hyperallergic

Recreating the Magic Circle of a Surrealist Seriously into the Occult

Bernard Hoffman, “Kurt Seligmann and Enrico Donati in a ‘Magic Circle'” (1948), gelatin silver print of “Magic Evening” (Soirée Seligmann) (courtesy Seligmann Center at the Orange County Citizens ...
The New York Times

Magicians Mount Search for Woman Behind Decades-Old Deception

A British society of magicians expelled a woman for tricking her way into the club in 1991. Now it wants to invite her back, but the woman seems to have pulled a disappearing act. By Amelia Nierenberg ...
The Guardian

Magic Circle readmits magician who disguised herself as a man, 30 years later

Sophie Lloyd, who was expelled in 1991 when her deception was exposed, accepts belated apology from the society Deception has always been an integral part of magic. So when Sophie Lloyd set about ...