The search for the waters of eternal life has fascinated figures from Gilgamesh to the conquistadors to Hollywood studio ...

(Even today, the magician David Copperfield who owns a 700-acre island in the Bahamas, claims the local water does “miraculous things… Bugs or insects that are near death come in contact with ...

Rembrandt, ‘Portrait of Hendrickje Stoffels ... the central figure’s persona as part romantic magician, part scientific pioneer. Wright, the first painter of the Industrial Revolution ...

Paintings, he says, whether Rembrandt’s somber interiors or Rothko ... When I rejoin him, he’s grinning like a magician ready to take his bow, but there’s no magic here.

Particular reverence was reserved for Rembrandt van Rijn’s The Night Watch (1642), the altarpiece around which, as the director put it, the entire museum had been built. A flash mob recreated ...

My dad wasn’t a professional magician – he just did it for fun. After he started teaching me I’d entertain my friends with tricks at school. One day when I was in Grade 10 one of my mom’s friends ...

The Night Watch painted by Rembrandt van Rijn is a monumental canvas displayed today in the “Gallery of Honour” of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Holland’s largest and most prominent museum. The grande ...

The magician, who now goes by his real name, also reminded the monarch that they were both members of the upper tier of the Magic Circle as he thanked the royal for giving him his first break.

Gayuma o mahika, is how Jairo Bolledo frames his documentary on Rodrigo Duterte and his political brand. After all, one either has the charm or magician skills — or both — to be able to rule a ...