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 ...

The Village Voice reviews an illuminating dual exhibition by André Kertész and M.C. Escher at Bruce Silverstein Gallery.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Alongside Monet’s water lilies and van Gogh’s swirling night sky, the telescoping staircases and precise forced perspectives of M.C. Escher are some of the most identifiable motifs in the Western art ...

Dutch printmaker M. C. Escher’s famed labyrinthine architectural visions (confusing staircase, anyone?) have become a pop-culture phenomenon that extend well beyond the confines of the art world.