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2/14/10 All Ivy+ Lunch
2/17/10 All Ivy+ Dinner
3/3/10 The Magical World of M.C. Escher
The MIT Club of the Palm Beach Region and The MIT Club of South Florida
Please join us for a free Guided tour of the The Magical World of MC Escher
7:00 PM on March 3, 2010 
Boca Raton Museum of Art at Mizner Park: 501 Plaza Real, Boca Raton, FL 33432
Event Contact: Claude Gerstle (Cgerstle@alum.MIT.edu) Phone: 561-638-8041
At 5:45pm, we will have an optional “Dutch Treat” dinner nearby at Uncle Julio's Restaurant in Mizner Park. http://www.unclejulios.com/menu.html
Dutch artist M.C. Escher (1898-1972) is among the most mathematical and scientific of artists.The unforgettable visual puzzles and impossible structures of M.C. Escher have earned Escher worldwide acclaim. Printmaker, draftsman, book illustrator and muralist M.C. Escher became one of the most famous artists of the 20th century, and his graphic works are recognized worldwide. Escher was truly an artist beyond his time. He worked with multiple realities and geometric figures that combine beauty, art, math, and the impossible to expand the very boundaries of our perception. Explore mathematics and art, infinity, architecture and tessellations all based on Escher's work, plus films including the award-winning 2007 "Achieving the Unachievable."This retrospective exhibition is one of the most comprehensive and important exhibitions of Escher's work ever shown in the United States. It presents hundreds of rare original artworks - including the artist's original drawings, watercolors, prints, wood blocks, studio furniture, tool cabinet and memorabilia - from the M.C. Eschr Family Collection, previously on loan to The Hague Museum.The exhibition also displays his most famous art works including Reptiles, Drawing Hands, Ringsnakes, Relativity, Puddle, Waterfall, Encounter, Hand with Reflecting Sphere, House of Stairs, Eye, and Metamorphosis.We will have a docent guide us on a tour of the MC Escher exhibit. Those who feel creative should bring their own tiling creations as indicated at this website: http://escher.epfl.ch/escher .Learn more about MC Escher or how to make your own tessellation art: http://www.tessellations.org/index.htm
RSVP: Please register online by February 21 at: https://alum.mit.edu/smarTrans/register-login.vm?eventID=39822&groupID=197
