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 ...

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.

Sion Sono's ode to movie extras is his best film since his near-fatal heart attack, and a wonderful reminder of what makes his work special. Sion Sono has lived many lives behind the camera. After ...

The Dutch illustrator known for visually perplexing design is lauded as a great artist in an interesting if uncritical documentary narrated by Stephen Fry Dutch director Robin Lutz has put together a ...

"Then he said, 'I'm not an artist. I'm a mathematician.'" Zeitgeist Films + Kino Lorber have debuted a new official US trailer for the entrancing art world documentary M.C. Escher: Journey Into ...

ROBIN LUTZ’S documentary about Maurits Cornelis Escher begins near the end of his life. Escher, one of the Netherlands’s most famous artists, and by then in his late 60s, is discovered by California’s ...

I looked into that enormous and inexhaustible source of inspiration that is Escher and tried to imagine ... what things would surround an artist like him, so deeply interested in science in general ...

“You oughta be in pictures,” sang Rudy Vallee in a 1934 song that became old Hollywood’s unofficial anthem, and the characters of Sion Sono’s shambolic ...