The Artifice Group
Leading providers of magical entertainment, mentalists, and magic-related expertise. Based in New York City...
Prakash Puru
Matthew Holtzclaw
The Artifice Group
provides state-of-the-art magical entertainment and magic-related expertise for corporate events, private parties, galas, product-launches and speaking engagements.
Based in New York City, we have performed in every conceivable venue across five continents - from New York to Nairobi, from Paris to Singapore, from Israel to Honolulu, and from London to Tokyo.
Unlike most event companies, we do
NOT
keep a stale catalogue of identical and interchangeable magicians. Instead, we maintain a select number of distinctive performers, each of them hand-picked for being the unsurpassed leader in their chosen field. For example:
Our trio of
close-up magicians
perform their cutting-edge blend of sleight-of-hand, mentalism, and mind-reading in Broadway theatres, on the sprawling gardens of ancient castles, in the libraries of a private yachts, at multi-national corporate galas, and in the homes of celebrities - on a daily basis. Standing mere inches from you, they read the minds of your guests, transform rose petals into live goldfish, and make borrowed objects float in mid-air. Every performance that they deliver is customized - no two events are alike - and every piece of magic they perform is unique to them. Their recent audiences include: The New York Yankees, The Blackstone Group, Saks Fifth Avenue, Helena Rubenstein, The Ritz-Carlton Millennia, The Four Seasons Singapore, Moody's Investors Service, and The Michael J. Fox Foundation.
A few years ago, our
stage mentalist
made headlines in his native Israel when he appeared as a guest on a popular radio show. While on the show, he impossibly caused the spoons and forks in hundreds of homes to bend and warp, despite physically being miles away from them. Moments later, he proceeded to cause the radio station's telephone lines to collapse. Now based in Manhattan, he can frequently be seen entertaining the city's celebrities, amongst them
Paul Newman
,
Kenneth Cole
, and
Whoopi Goldberg
.
Our
pickpocket
is the only man in the world to have pick-pocketed the Secret Service - while they were guarding President Jimmy Carter. He relieved them of their watches, wallets, keys, and a document marked "CONFIDENTIAL." They barely felt him touch them. When he returned their items to them moments later, they could not stop laughing. (Neither could President Carter.) Since then, he has picked the pockets of an array of celebrities and CEOs - amongst them
Charles Barkley
,
Jennifer Garner
, and
Troy Aikman
. He has been featured in The New York Times, provided technical expertise for The Travel Channel, lectured at a gathering of the country's top scientists, performed on A&E and The View, and been given his own television series on TruTV. His recent clients include: Bank of America, Citigroup, Bear Stearns, Tiffany & Co, and Bellagio Las Vegas.
Our
keynote speaker
is a polymath who has appeared on The Today Show, Good Morning America, and Wall Street Journal Report. As a sleight-of-hand expert, he has received rave reviews in The New York Press, Vanity Fair, and The Washington Post; Broadway.com declares him "a quintessential showman," and The New Yorker proclaims his skills as "one of the most masterly in the word today...like seeing
Yo-Yo Ma
practice scales at Carnegie Hall." As an author and creative thinker, he co-authored "Visual Explanations" with
Edward Tufte
(described by The New York Times as "the da Vinci of data"), and has consulted for PBS, FX Network, The Discovery Channel, and Rolling Stone magazine. And as an incomparable speaker, he has been engaged by The Smithsonian Institution, Johns Hopkins University, and Sigma Xi, and was recently a featured speaker at the annual Entertainment Gathering, joining a roster of luminaries
Jeffrey Katzenberg
,
Frank Gehry
, and
Matt Groening
.
Which of our magicians will best enhance your next event? We don't yet know. You probably don't either.
So call us, and we'll talk.
Prakash Puru
, Founder: 1 917 365 5506
www.PrakashPuru.com
Matthew Holtzclaw, Director & Head Consultant: 1 917 887 8621
www.MatthewHoltzclaw.com
Email:
info@theartificegroup.com
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Fishbucket
New York City, Manhattan, magic, mentalism, mindreading, mind-reading, hypnosis, hypnotism, Apollo Robbins, Asi Wind, Prakash Puru, Matthew Holtzclaw, Jamy Ian Swiss, Todd Robbins
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