The late Dutch artist M.C. Escher is perhaps best known for his tessellations that fool the eye, like “Sky and Water I,” where birds in the air trade off negative space with fish underwater. But there ...

With a mathematical precision, M.C. Escher played with perspective, making the impossible seem more than plausible. Water runs uphill. Staircases have no set path up, down or, even upside-down. A pair ...

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 ...

During his lifetime, famed graphic artist M.C. Escher explored the concepts of mathematical infinity and impossible geometry in a series of wood prints, lithographs, and mezzotints. One thing Escher ...

Water pours over a ledge before appearing to flow back to the same ledge it just fell over. Graphic artist M.C. Escher creates this image in his popular 1961 piece "Waterfall," one of more than 150 of ...

M.C. Escher (1898–1972), an artist of enigmas, has this larger enigma about him: He is inexplicably overrated or inexplicably underappreciated, depending on how you look at him. Like one of his ...

Staircases that lead to an infinite loop, divisions of plane into imaginative space, and hands that draw themselves—these are some of the images we associate with M.C. Escher. His inventive and ...

Dutch artist M. C. Escher (1898-1972) is known for his impossible landscapes, like waterfalls and staircases that operate in continuous loops, and his fantastically interlocking “tessellations,” like ...

A documentary examines the methods and interests of this Dutch printmaker, who felt his work was also indebted to mathematics. By Ben Kenigsberg When you purchase a ticket for an independently ...