{"id":9519,"date":"2021-11-01T17:30:51","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T21:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=9519"},"modified":"2021-11-01T17:26:33","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T21:26:33","slug":"m-c-escher-at-bruce-silverstein-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/01\/m-c-escher-at-bruce-silverstein-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"M.C. Escher at Bruce Silverstein Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just as a tiny shift in perspective can cause a straightforward transparent cube to morph into an impossible cube, M.C. Escher\u2019s architecture in this 1958 print is believable on first glance, until matching up columns to arches proves otherwise.\u00a0 The lithograph is one of 75 artworks on view in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brucesilverstein.com\/exhibitions\/m-c-escher-prints-drawings-watercolors-and-textiles\">Bruce Silverstein Gallery\u2019s<\/a> exhibition of the Dutch printmaker\u2019s work from the \u201830s to late career. Inspired by the impossible cube, a version of which is being held by a seated man on the lower terrace, Escher delights viewers by confounding us.\u00a0 (On view in Chelsea through Nov 20<sup>th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9520\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9520\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=9520\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9520\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9520\" src=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/mc_escher.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"787\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/mc_escher.jpg 1446w, https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/mc_escher-95x150.jpg 95w, https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/mc_escher-254x400.jpg 254w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9520\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">M.C. Escher, Belvedere, lithograph, printers proof, 18 \u00bc x 11 5\/8 inches, 1958.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just as a tiny shift in perspective can cause a straightforward transparent cube to morph into an impossible cube, M.C. Escher\u2019s architecture in this 1958 print is believable on first glance, until matching up columns to arches proves otherwise.\u00a0 The lithograph is one of 75 artworks on view in Bruce Silverstein Gallery\u2019s exhibition of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/01\/m-c-escher-at-bruce-silverstein-gallery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;M.C. Escher at Bruce Silverstein Gallery&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,27,4],"tags":[1362,8,2206,117,13,3292,9566,9565,521,2643,16],"class_list":["post-9519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-features-commissions","category-hottest-show","tag-architecture","tag-art","tag-bruce-silverstein","tag-chelsea","tag-gallery","tag-illusion","tag-impossible-cube","tag-mc-escher","tag-printmaking","tag-prints","tag-tour"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-2tx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9519"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9525,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9519\/revisions\/9525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}