Everybody (almost) in magic owns a table with black art wells. But very few people know what to do with them, and almost nobody knows the number of ways they can be used. Charles Earle Miller, the author of the famous column in Genii, "Magicana" and pop

Is magic an art? Magicians have been thinking about it in the wrong way for more than a century. If you feel that the question is merely academic, Brushstrokes explains the value for every magician, with examples from history and from current