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 ...

On the printed page of an art book or magazine, Escher’s work acquires a hard, mechanical coldness that exaggerates certain tendencies in his work, principally his overpowering search for visual order ...

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 ...

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 ...

AKRON, Ohio -- We're all familiar with the mind-blowing winding staircases, goggle-eyed fish and interlocking patterns and puzzles of Dutch artist M.C. Escher. But there's so much more to the artist - ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

WAUSAU - His mind-blowing illustrations have been the subject of many a college dorm poster. But M.C. Escher's works are also a part of a fine art tradition inspired by mathematics, philosophy and the ...

Art usually presents us with incontrovertible facts. Abstract canvas or marble bust, representational drawing or fanciful relief all fix a specific image in a specific way for all time. And then there ...

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 ...