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 ...

Known for his perspective pictures and geometric lithographs, M.C. Escher is one of the best known graphic artists of the 20th century. His work is featured in his hometown, Leeuwarden, 2018 European ...

ANYONE living in the 21st century would have seen several of MC Escher's images - although his name might not so quickly come to mind. The Dutchman, who lived from 1898 to 1972, was one of the ...

This hotel is a trip! A swanky five-story inn with a mind-teasing, circuitous rooftop straight out of a lithograph by Dutch artist M.C. Escher will replace an old Gulf gas station in Crown Heights.

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 ...

Born in the Netherlands in 1898, Maurits Cornelis Escher was originally enrolled in the School for Architecture and Decorative Arts in Haarlem with the intention of becoming an architect. ''I came ...

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 ...

THE universe may have the same surreal geometry as some of art’s most mind-boggling images. That’s the upshot of a study by the world’s most famous living scientist, Stephen Hawking of the University ...