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 ...

“M.C. Escher: Journey to Infinity” succeeds where so many documentaries about artists fail: It provides real insight into the art. It’s a welcome trip for those fascinated by his ...

M.C. Escher was a Dutch graphic artist known for his iconic optical illusions. His lithographs, woodcuts, engravings, and drawings expressed a high level of technical expertise and meticulous ...

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 ...

Providing some orientation for the disorienting work of the Dutch printmaker M.C. Escher (1898-1972), the ... Don’t call it art; Escher felt his output hovered between art and mathematics.

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 optical illusions of the Dutch printmaker M.C. Escher (1898-1972) began finding mass appeal in the 1960s when they won a die-hard following among everyone from Mick Jagger, who had hopes of ...

But it's happening at the Portland Art Museum with "Virtual Worlds: M.C. Escher and Paradox," the latest exhibit focusing on the popular Dutch printmaker who died in 1972. The new show may seem ...

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 book also includes Nocturnal Rome (1934), a series of 12 woodcuts created by the artist based on his nighttime wanderings through the city. M.C. Escher, “Circle Limit III” (1959), woodcut ...

If you’re of a certain age, the mere mention of the name M.C. Escher can nudge you into a heady swirl of nostalgia. Robin Lutz’s joyful and kaleidoscopic documentary “M.C. Escher: Journey to ...