{"id":5695,"date":"2013-12-04T11:12:29","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T16:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/?p=5695"},"modified":"2013-12-04T11:12:29","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04T16:12:29","slug":"upcoming-exhibit-the-art-of-illusion-selections-from-the-h-adrian-smith-collection-of-conjuring-and-magicana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/upcoming-exhibit-the-art-of-illusion-selections-from-the-h-adrian-smith-collection-of-conjuring-and-magicana\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Illusion Exhibit: Selections from the H. Adrian\u00a0Smith Collection of Conjuring and Magicana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-5696\" alt=\"floatinghead\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/files\/2013\/08\/floatinghead.png\" width=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2013\/08\/floatinghead.png 441w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2013\/08\/floatinghead-300x148.png 300w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2013\/08\/floatinghead-100x49.png 100w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2013\/08\/floatinghead-150x74.png 150w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2013\/08\/floatinghead-200x99.png 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 441px) 100vw, 441px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>The Art of Illusion Exhibit<\/em> opens this week in the Rockefeller Library.\u00a0This exhibit will be on display from December 5, 2013 to March 26, 2014.\u00a0<em>The Art of Illusion\u00a0<\/em>highlights selections from the H. Adrian Smith Collection of Conjuring and Magicana.<\/p>\n<p>H. Adrian Smith (Brown class of 1930) assembled during his lifetime one of the finest private collections of magic books, manuscripts, and ephemera. It was bequeathed to the University upon his death in 1992.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the general public wishing to to view exhibits at the Rockefeller Library should first check in at the service desk.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:\u00a0<\/strong>December 5, 2013 \u2013 March 7, 2014<br \/>\n<strong>Location:\u00a0<\/strong>Lobby cases | Rockefeller Library<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><b>Contact:<\/b>\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:holly_snyder@brown.edu\">Holly Snyder<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Art of Illusion Exhibit opens this week in the Rockefeller Library.\u00a0This exhibit will be on display from December 5, 2013 to March 26, 2014.\u00a0The Art of Illusion\u00a0highlights selections from the H. Adrian Smith Collection of Conjuring and Magicana. H. Adrian Smith (Brown class of 1930) assembled during his lifetime one of the finest private <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/upcoming-exhibit-the-art-of-illusion-selections-from-the-h-adrian-smith-collection-of-conjuring-and-magicana\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  The Art of Illusion Exhibit: Selections from the H. Adrian\u00a0Smith Collection of Conjuring and Magicana<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}