M.C. Escher created landscapes and portraits, with lush detail and appeal, even without a speck of color. But he's known for his logic puzzle art.

I first took my kids to the M.C. Escher exhibit at the N.C. Museum of Art over Thanksgiving. My dad was in town and it seemed like the perfect family activity before settling in for a giant feast ...

It’s a big year for Escher in the States. An exhibition of 50 of his works, “M.C. Escher: Infinite Dimensions,” opened at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston in February, and is on view through ...

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 ...

The status of M.C. Escher as the godfather of psychedelic art owes almost as much to the Dutchman’s democratic spirit as to his mesmeric subject matter. True, his preoccupations with the concept ...

When you see fish on display at the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, Mass., they're usually happily swimming in the downstairs aquarium, or skeletons in one of the museum's natural history exhibits ...

As “M.C. Escher: Journey to Infinity” reveals, the answer is yes. Escher’s work meshed, to an uncanny degree, with the trippy aesthetics of the counterculture, as much as “The Lord of the ...

M.C. Escher, “Mummified Priests” (1932), lithograph, 8 x 10 4/5 inches During this time, Escher was still a naturalistic illustrator, rather than the optical illusionist he would become.

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 … ...

The largest exhibition of M.C. Escher to ever appear in the United States isn't at an art museum, but in a former warehouse and manufacturing center on the Brooklyn waterfront.