In what is being billed as the largest M.C. Escher exhibition ever, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is presenting more than 400 works by the beloved graphic artist, providing a fresh look to an ...

The M.C. Escher Exhibition opened in accordance with the MOA's monthly 'Art After Dark' event on Friday, Nov. 17. MOA marketing and public relations manager Kylie Brooks said shows are usually up for ...

The exhibition is presented by Walker Fine Art, New York, known for housing one of the largest collections of work by M.C. Escher. Installation view of "M.C. Escher and Contemporary Masters" (2024).

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON – Hands that draw one another, in perpetual unison; a flock of birds that migrates east and west simultaneously; a perfect orb, reflecting a view of an entire room – and its resident ...

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 ...

As somebody who was a math whiz in high school and also an artist, I have always been fond of M. C. Escher's artwork. There's just something about his tessellations and topsy-turvy optical illusions ...

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 ...

A modern-art marvel celebrated for his illusionistic, fantastical drawings and lithographs, M. C. Escher (1898–1972) is regarded today as one of the world’s most iconic graphic artists. Renowned ...