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, ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about film, the arts, and design. At once dizzying and revelatory, whimsical and informative, the exhibition thus embodies ...

Water pours over a ledge before appearing to flow back to the same ledge it just fell over. Graphic artist M.C. Escher creates this image in his popular 1961 piece "Waterfall," one of more than 150 of ...