But at first glance, PEM's curator of maritime history and art Dan Finamore said the contemporary artist's trippy works can seem ... Not these days. “I'm really a product of hippie enlightenment ...

To a hurried viewer, the contents of New Yorker Phil Sims' show at Brian Gross may make little sense: monochrome abstract paintings and tea bowls. But they point to the same ideal -- persistent ...

Interlocking birds that morph into fish, and back again. Dutch graphic artist Maurits Cornelis (M.C.) Escher’s iconic, trippy images have mesmerized many a mathematician, college student ...