While the exhibit is in San Francisco, the CJM will be offering some complementary programming, including two films: the 1953 film “Houdini” (starring Tony Curtis) at 1 p.m. 4, also drawing large crowds.Ĭrowd scene with trolley cars stopped while Houdini performs the Straitjacket Escape, circa 1915 photo/collection of ken trombly It then moved to the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, where it ran from late April until Sept. The exhibit drew big crowds when it ran in New York for five months, from December 2010 through March. It also includes contemporary art inspired by the magician. Organized by the Jewish Museum in New York, where it made its debut, the exhibition features more than 160 artifacts, including handcuffs, a straitjacket and other pieces of Houdini’s renowned escape acts private diaries, promotional posters, flyers, photographs and wall-sized projections of silent films that captured him performing his craft in his heyday.
2 at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, explores the life and legacy of the man whose name remains synonymous with daring, seemingly death-defying illusions and feats of strength. “Houdini: Art and Magic,” which opens Sunday, Oct. Quinn, as it appeared in the newspaper: “Well, I’ll be d-d.”Īlmost a century later, history’s most-loved escape artist still inspires the same reaction. The headline in the San Francisco Examiner the next day read “Wizard Throws Off Bonds With Lightening Speed Suspended From Side of Hearst Building.” The response of police chief William J.
Harry Houdini, circa 1920 photo/courtesy of the national portrait gallery, smithsonian institution, washington, d.c.
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