"I don’t capture moments, I capture ideas," Erik Johansson proclaims on his website. The Swedish photographer seems to take heavy cues from M.C. Esc...

Art causes even more problems than it solves, when it questions foregone conclusions and assumptions. And unlike assembling a chair, there isn't one way to do it right and you can't know what it's going to look like by studying the box.

Canadian painter Rob Gonsalves's optical illusions remind us of M.C. Escher's impossible constructions and Salvador Dali's surreal worlds. We orig...

How many people do you see in this image? In this body paint illusion, five nudes morph into a brightly-colored frog. We've been floored by the wor...

How would you define the concept of an optical illusion? Filmmaker Samm Hodges attempts to explain the phenomenon in his new video, "Illusions," a daz...

This week's featured photo is from @exhibitjuliet on Instagram. She writes: I came home from vacation last night to one of the MOST amazing things ...

This week's featured photo is from Yoni Mayeri, a California-based photographer and visual artist. The photo below is a digital drawing inspired by sc...

Before Reddit and DeviantART became the go-to havens for op art online, Italian painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo set the standard for hallucinatory portrai...

We've all seen drawings of impossible objects like M.C. Escher's Penrose stairs and ascending and descending walkway. However, after seeing the optica...

With his truly spectacular optical illusions, Brusspup is more of a magician than an artist -- it's all about the reveal. In his latest video, the ...