As we take in what seems to be a golden age of documentaries focusing on a wide array of subjects, filmmakers chronicling the works of visual artists have an especially difficult task at hand. Some, ...

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 ...

MANCHESTER, N.H. — Maurits Cornelis Escher, magician and geek, has had his impossible, twisty-turny worlds reincarnated on “The Simpsons” and by LEGO masterminds. His tessellating patterns of morphing ...

The illusion is based on a geometrical puzzle known as the Penrose tribar, from the name of the mathematician whose researches were inspired by Escher’s work. The tribar is a triangle in which each of ...

M.C. Escher's works tend to evoke two reactions. First, you want to stare at them all day to unlock their mysteries. Second, you never want to meet their creator at a cocktail party. Visitors to the ...

The pieces in 'M.C. Escher: Reality and Illusion' are taken from the collection of Paul Firos and his wife, Belinda. Exhibit heads next to a museum in Wausau, Wisconsin, before its final destination ...

“Are you really sure that a floor can’t be a ceiling?” asked M.C. Escher, whose mind-bending spatial illusions have proven enduringly popular. A collection of 130 of the artist’s enigmatic works, ...

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 ...

Lego modeller Paul Vermeesch has created a fantastic Lego Star Wars version of the famous M.C. Escher’s 1953 lithograph “Relativity“. As you can see in the image below, the optical illusions are ...

M.C. Escher’s two-dimensional renderings of impossible feats of architecture are endlessly fascinating to look at, precisely because they could not exist as three-dimensional objects. Or could they?

Forced perspective is that optical illusion that can make an object appear larger, smaller, or farther away. It’s a technique that’s been used in everything from film to architecture to a Canadian ...

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