Let there be no mistake about it. Many of the pictures that now routinely appear in print are no more than pictorial aids to reasoning, graphical sketches intended to suggest or persuade rather than ...

A new exhibition at London's Somerset House invites visitors to step into the wacky world of M.C. Escher, where nothing is ...

Math underlies many of the art pieces M.C. Escher created, because he was fascinated with the idea of depicting infinity in various ways, producing infinitely repeatable patterns known as ...

M.C. Escher’s two-dimensional renderings of impossible feats of architecture are endlessly fascinating to look at, precisely because they could not exist as three-dimensional objects. Or could they?

In 1954, a young Roger Penrose was attending the International Congress of Mathematicians in Amsterdam when he came across the work of Maurits Cornelis Escher, a Dutch artist and print-maker. Escher’s ...

A Paris exhibition is drawing attention to the role played by traditional Islamic art in the visual puzzles of Dutch artist M. C. Escher, writes David Tresilian Even people not knowledgeable about ...