An Artist Turns to (Actual) Magic Tricks

Best known for such conceptual sculptures as an Aeron chair rotated at 200rpm to look like a chalice, Glenn Kaino began exploring the world of illusionists and magic tricks around 2000. By 2008, “he had had enough of art as a commodity,” telling a gallerist at Art Basel Miami Beach, “I’m going back to magic. I want to believe in something again.”