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The Escape Artist was bound in a straitjacket and locked in a safe. The safe was brought to a housewarming party—one that the Escape Artist didn't really want to attend—and was placed in the living ...

For an art project about the effects of white privilege and the disturbing ways in which its effects are built into our society, Risa Puno’s The Privilege of Escape is a surprisingly fun, even ...

Harry Houdini, the remarkable illusionist who stunned international audiences with his death-defying escape act, was shackled eternally by the Grim Reaper on this Halloween in history, Oct. 31, 1926. ...