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 ...

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.

Escher may be best known for his mind-bending drawings, but a coming sale at Christie's shows a broader picture of the Dutch ...

Art & Exhibitions It’s No Illusion: M.C. Escher’s Mind-Bending Works Are Coming to Brooklyn. The show hopes to bring Escher's optical puzzles to life with Instagram-worthy "photo booths." ...

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 ...

It’s an artwork that has been reproduced countless times in popular culture. But behind the familiar picture is a mysterious figure. Alastair Sooke goes in search of MC Escher. It must be one of ...

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 ...

Visitors to the Naples Art Institute (nee Naples Art) can have both sensations wash over them through its just-opened 146-piece exhibition, "M.C. Escher: Reality & Illusion." ...

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 ...

Escher’s optical illusion created with the technique is incredibly complex; ... As such, the ingenuity of M.C. Escher’s art is free from the limits of time and space. And, ...

The pieces in 'M.C. Escher: Reality and Illusion' are taken from the collection of Paul Firos and his wife, Belinda. Exhibit heads next to a museum in Wausau, Wisconsin, before its final ...