For people like herself, says Anneke Bart, math is like a puzzle. “We sit around and play with pictures and dink around,” says the professor of mathematics. That’s how, faced with a tough question, ...

M.C. Escher — he of never-ending stairwells, fish morphing into flowers, hands drawing one another, expert use of glass globes, and math-minded imagineer of infinite nesting universes — is an iconic ...

‘Drawing Hands’ and the illusion-inducing ‘Ascending and Descending’. These two works, which you have likely seen at least once, are both by the Dutch printmaker Maurits Cornelis Escher. While the ...

In the 1960s, the mathematically inspired images of Dutch artist M.C. Escher became a feature of popular culture. I remember album covers, T-shirts, posters and jigsaw puzzles emblazoned with the ...

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 ...

As if it wasn’t already abundantly clear, humanity tends to divide the world through binary systems. Self and other, this not that, grilled or fried, life becomes much easier when reduced to dualism.

In an age of algorithmic sameness and AI-generated everything, a new exhibition reminds us what human imagination actually looks like.

A documentary examines the methods and interests of this Dutch printmaker, who felt his work was also indebted to mathematics. By Ben Kenigsberg When you purchase a ticket for an independently ...