M.C. Escher spent most of his career being neglected by the artistic community. He spent the 1920s painting Italian landscapes to little fanfare, but a shift to what he called mental imagery led ...

Jeff Bartels's ongoing series 'Urban Glitch' invokes nostalgia for the recent past in meticulously detailed paintings.

My friend Owen cannot stop talking about “Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid” (2019), a book about logician Kurt ...

Maurits Cornelis Escher achieved world-wide fame with his optical illusions but it is less well known that he also made art for public spaces.

Its flagship store downtown has color-coded rooms to help shoppers find their favorites in a space its marketing director, Jeremy Solly, describes as "like an M.C. Escher painting." The store sprawls ...

A Fable” — 3 stars I have a theory on why Francis Ford Coppola’s anxiously awaited first movie in 13 years turns out to be ...

This story appears in the September 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. It was frozen-toe, mid-February, north-country cold, under a cloudless sky, sun glinting off fresh snow. We were ...

The arts community saw projects years in the making come to fruition in 2024, and new spaces are still on the horizon.

She studied how to represent three-dimensional shapes in two dimensions, including the artwork of M.C. Escher. She spoke with artists. She thought back to a class she had taken on illusions. She ...

Henry V” is like one of those M.C. Escher prints where sometimes you see fish and sometimes ducks—it plays with your ...

Meanwhile, jackets with strategically placed slits were woven through with fabric panels in constructions that evoked the ...