Honeycombs, some bathroom floors and designs by artist M.C. Escher have something in common: they are composed of repeating patterns of the same shape without any overlaps or gaps. This type of ...

Puzzles that will leave you in (identical) pieces ...

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 ...

As somebody who was a math whiz in high school and also an artist, I have always been fond of M. C. Escher's artwork. There's just something about his tessellations and topsy-turvy optical illusions ...

A new retrospective of M.C. Escher’s work opens this week. Explore some of his most mind-bending, mathematically inspired works.

Here’s a show that’s certain to give Brooklyn some perspective: A massive exhibition of the mathematically infused artworks of M.C. Escher (1898–1972) is coming to the borough in June. “Escher. The ...

Before the famous optical illusions and infinite worlds, there were humble tools and a very patient hand. This summer, ...

Dutch artist M. C. Escher (1898-1972) is known for his impossible landscapes, like waterfalls and staircases that operate in continuous loops, and his fantastically interlocking “tessellations,” like ...