M.C. Escher, Bond of Union (1956). ©The M.C. Escher Company, The Netherlands; courtesy of Michael S. Sachs. Dorian Batycka August 17, 2022 Share Share This Article ...

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.

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.

Meet Monument Valley, an M.C. Escher-inspired puzzler for iOS from Ustwogames, a subsidiary of digital design studio Ustwo, that borrows the artistic wonder of Japenese woodblock prints.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.