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| Ricky Jay |
Ricky Jay, magician, movie actor, stage performer, author, and renaissance man, has brought his broadsides collection to California for “Extraordinary Exhibitions: Broadsides From the Collection of Ricky Jay,” on display at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco through April 3.
The collection contains more than “100 bizarre handbills from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries — which somehow escaped a dozen generations of refuse bins and found their way into Jay’s ever-expanding collection.”
The San Francisco Chronicle features Mr. Jay in their review of the exhibition, as well as report on his return to California. His work and curiosity has taken him from opening act for Cheech and Chong to performing an one-man show written by Award Winning Playwright David Mamet.
Mr. Jay explains that his fascination with the broadsides comes from the otherwise unknown history of entertainment centuries ago. It is entirely possible, he suggests, that but for the preservation of the broadsides and handbills, entertainers and entertainment genres would be forever unknown. To the modern day man, it would be as if the performers and their art never existed.
Mr. Jay is bringing his card-trick show, “On the Stem” to the Bay Area while his exhibit continues.
Check out the article in the San Francisco Chronicle by clicking here.
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| Ricky Jay |
Ricky Jay, magician, movie actor, stage performer, author, and renaissance man, has brought his broadsides collection to California for “Extraordinary Exhibitions: Broadsides From the Collection of Ricky Jay,” on display at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco through April 3.
The collection contains more than “100 bizarre handbills from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries — which somehow escaped a dozen generations of refuse bins and found their way into Jay’s ever-expanding collection.”
The San Francisco Chronicle features Mr. Jay in their review of the exhibition, as well as report on his return to California. His work and curiosity has taken him from opening act for Cheech and Chong to performing an one-man show written by Award Winning Playwright David Mamet.
Mr. Jay explains that his fascination with the broadsides comes from the otherwise unknown history of entertainment centuries ago. It is entirely possible, he suggests, that but for the preservation of the broadsides and handbills, entertainers and entertainment genres would be forever unknown. To the modern day man, it would be as if the performers and their art never existed.
Mr. Jay is bringing his card-trick show, “On the Stem” to the Bay Area while his exhibit continues.
Check out the article in the San Francisco Chronicle by clicking here.
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