Born in the Netherlands in 1898, Maurits Cornelis Escher was originally enrolled in the School for Architecture and Decorative Arts in Haarlem with the intention of becoming an architect. ''I came ...

Here’s a fun thing to do: Google “geometric rhubarb tart,” and then look at the gorgeous tarts that appear. Tart-makers slice rhubarb into diamonds or form squares, some play on the natural gradient ...

Maurits Cornelis Escher saw the world differently. The Dutch artist created a few dozen images that, because of his peculiar perspective, have endured. But many of those images — two hands drawing ...

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