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RICKY JAY DOCUMENTARY
"…Hugely Entertaining…"
Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
"Enchanting…A joy to watch!"
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News
"This is a wonderful movie about a great artist, one of the all time great artists in the field of magic."
Woody Allen
Voted one of the top ten movies of 2013 by Entertainment Weekly
DECEPTIVE PRACTICE: THE MYSTERIES AND MENTORS OF RICKY JAY
is available at:
and for direct download at
RickyJayMovie.com
PAST EVENTS
Geoff Dyer & Ricky Jay
Thursday, November 20, 2014 at 7:30pm
SON OF ROGUES GALLERY
Ricky Jay (don't ask how) joined a remarkable roster of performers: Lucinda Williams, Loudon Wainwright, Sting,
Richard Thompson, Lou Reed, Bryan Ferry, Van Dyke Parks, Bono, etc., etc.
GREAT NEWS
JUST RELEASED
SON OF ROGUES GALLERY
of Noah and his Ark. Other worthies performing include: Tom Waits,
Keith Richards, Marianne Faithful, Chuck E. Weiss, Patti Smith, Ivan Neville, Iggy Pop, Dr. John, etc., etc.
DECEPTIVE PRACTICE: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay
A film by Molly Bernstein & Alan Edelstein
Premiered at The New York Film Festival on October 4, 2012
"The Believer" Magazine - May 2012
http://www.believermag.com/issues/201205/?read=interview_jay
On View at the Hammer Museum through January 15, 2012
SELECTIONS FROM THE HAMMER CONTEMPORARY COLLECTION
featuring Untitled (Ricky Jay) by Glenn Kaino
Glenn Kaino (American, b. 1973)
Untitled (Ricky Jay), 2010
Playing cards
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Gift of the Artist and LAXART, in honor of Ricky Jay.
Featured in the Sections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection installation October 2011 – January 2012.
Photo by Brian Forrest.
The magician, actor, writer, and collector Ricky Jay is rendered here by Glenn Kaino in playing cards, one of the tools in Jay’s magician’s quiver.
Kaino studies the history and practice of magic as a parallel to art making: both artists and magicians develop finely honed skills to create illusions
that rely on their audience’s willing suspension of disbelief. This homage to the widely respected Jay is a nod both to op art and to
the magician’s long-held card-throwing record. From certain angles, the work appears as a jumble of planes and colors,
but from just the right vantage point, the cards coalesce into Jay’s unmistakable visage.
Extraordinary Exhibitions: Broadsides from the Collection of Ricky Jay was presented at the Hammer Museum in 2007,
and Kaino donated this portrait to the Hammer Contemporary Collection in honor of Jay.
Click here for more infomation
Ricky Jay on David Letterman!
Grammy Nominated!
An exhibition of Ricky Jay's dice
from DICE: Deception, Fate & Rotten Luck,
along
with photographs by Rosamond Purcell, are on display at the following
venue:
Indefinitely at
The Museum of Jurassic Technology
9341 Venice Blvd.
Culver City, CA 90232
RICKY JAY & DAVID MAMET IN CONVERSATION
AT THE HAMMER MUSEUM ON TUESDAY, MAY 31, 2011 AT 7PM
Billy Wilder Theatre, 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA
Event is FREE, but you must reserve tickets
Click here for more information
CITY ARTS & LECTURES, HERBST THEATRE, SAN FRANCISCO
WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 2011 at 8PM
Ricky Jay in Conversation with Roy Eisenhardt
Click here for more information
LOOK FOR RICKY JAY AT THE LA TIMES FESTIVAL OF BOOKS
Ricky Jay discusses his new book Celebrations of Curious Characterswith Pulitzer-prize winning critic Joe Morgenstern at the
USC Campus Center Ballroom, Saturday April 30th at 2:30 P.M.
RICKY JAY appeared as himself on THE GREAT SIMPSINA,
a new episode of THE SIMPSONS, which aired APRIL 10, 2011.
WIRED MAGAZINE
FEBRUARY 2011 ISSUE
Ricky Jay Tells Tales of History's Most Singular Scammers
Special Underworld Edition
LOS ANGELES: THE GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE
Want a sure bet for an evening of classy entertainment? Then put your money on Ricky Jay, Hollywood's favorite sleight-of-hand performer whose facility with a deck of cards (among other talents) offers consistent audience payoff in his latest one-man show at the Geffen Playhouse... Effortless stage presence and dazzling technique...
Audiences who know Jay primarily from his card routines may be pleased to learn that the performer is an equally gifted raconteur...His method of seduction is a combination of wit, class and strategic understatement. Being conned has seldom felt this enjoyable.
Los Angeles Times
CHICAGO: THE ROYAL GEORGE THEATRE
Ricky Jay is an astonishing magician -- a grand master of the art and craft required for the dramatic manipulation of things that appear to be in full sight. Yet sleight-of-hand is almost the least of the many extraordinary talents and enthusiasms of this actor, writer, historian and performance artist... [A] tremendously engaging, endlessly imaginative one-man show.
Chicago Sun-Times
October 8, 2010: Errol Morris and Ricky Jay speak about
Deception and Art at the Getty Center Theater at 7PM.
Can anyone truly tell reality from illusion? When we pride ourselves on our ability to distinguish real from fake, forgery from masterpiece, are we only engaging in self-deception?
Filmmaker Errol Morris and sleight-of-hand artist Ricky Jay, who have recently collaborated on
Morris's New York Times blog, consider these questions in a wide-ranging discussion of art
and perception, offering a thought-provoking evening that challenges what we think we know about
art and about ourselves.
