When we spoke with Nasher Museum of Art director Sarah Schroth for the museum’s 10th anniversary, she noted that, while she loves contemporary art, it doesn’t speak to everyone. That’s one reason she ...

Maurits Cornelis Escher saw the world differently. The Dutch artist created a few dozen images that, because of his peculiar perspective, have endured. But many of those images — two hands drawing ...

For most of his adult life, Mick Jagger has probably only rarely heard the word “no” in response to any of his requests. But he heard it at least twice from Maurits Cornelis Escher, the graphic artist ...

“I think that we all grew up with different memories of Escher,” offered Jackie Adams, director of art and learning at the Columbia Museum of Art, which opens the expansive exhibition “The Imaginative ...

Alongside Monet’s water lilies and van Gogh’s swirling night sky, the telescoping staircases and precise forced perspectives of M.C. Escher are some of the most identifiable motifs in the Western art ...

Let there be no mistake about it. Many of the pictures that now routinely appear in print are no more than pictorial aids to reasoning, graphical sketches intended to suggest or persuade rather than ...

Here’s a show that’s certain to give Brooklyn some perspective: A massive exhibition of the mathematically infused artworks of M.C. Escher (1898–1972) is coming to the borough in June. “Escher. The ...

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A topsy-turvy staircase leading nowhere. Two hands drawing themselves into existence. Interlocking birds that morph into fish, and back again. Dutch graphic artist Maurits Cornelis (M.C.) Escher’s ...

To complement the M.C. Escher retrospective at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), TASCHEN is allowing you to construct the artist’s riddles in the palm of your hands. M.C. Escher. Kaleidocycles ...

Check out Nigel Freeman’s appraisal of a 1951 M.C. Escher "Plane Filling I" with letter in Denver Botanic Gardens Chatfield Farms, Hour 1. Antiques Roadshow is available to stream on pbs.org and the ...

"Then he said, 'I'm not an artist. I'm a mathematician.'" Zeitgeist Films + Kino Lorber have debuted a new official US trailer for the entrancing art world documentary M.C. Escher: Journey Into ...