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. But there ...

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 ...

Escher’s works are now praised by people from all corners of the world. To provide visitors with a real-life experience of Escher’s graphic arts, the museum created a mirror room with a tessellation ...

Featuring over 150 original works, Journey to Infinity: Escher’s World of Wonder takes you from MC Escher’s early works of realistic drawings and prints inspired by nature and Italy's landscape, to ...

Today’s puzzles come from Alain Nicolas, a Frenchman who has been called the world’s finest artist of Escher-style tilings. (That’s to say, tilings with no gaps or overlaps in which each tile is in ...