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 ...

In the 1960s, the mathematically inspired images of Dutch artist M.C. Escher became a feature of popular culture. I remember album covers, T-shirts, posters and jigsaw puzzles emblazoned with the ...

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 ...

DELAND — An alligator comes into existence and walks across a book and other objects before returning to the two-dimensional space where it started. The creature, depicted in the 1943 "Reptiles," is ...

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 ...

You probably saw his work hanging on the walls of your friends' college dorm rooms. You probably stared at them trying to figure out what kind of mind came up with those precise, impossible and ...