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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As we take in what seems to be a golden age of documentaries focusing on a wide array of subjects, filmmakers chronicling the works of visual artists have an especially difficult task at hand. Some, ...

M.C. Escher — he of never-ending stairwells, fish morphing into flowers, hands drawing one another, expert use of glass globes, and math-minded imagineer of infinite nesting universes — is an iconic ...

As if it wasn’t already abundantly clear, humanity tends to divide the world through binary systems. Self and other, this not that, grilled or fried, life becomes much easier when reduced to dualism.

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 ...

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 ...

Maurits Cornelis Escher saw the world differently. The Dutch artist created a few dozen images that, because of his peculiar perspective, have endured. But many of those images — two hands drawing ...

Check out Nigel Freeman’s appraisal of a 1951 M.C. Escher "Plane Filling I" with letter in Denver Botanic Gardens Chatfield Farms, Hour 1. Antiques Roadshow is available to stream on pbs.org and the ...