At 7 30 p.m., Baryshnikov Arts Center, 450 West 37th Street, Manhattan, (866) 811-4111, bacnyc.org; $20. (Burke) LifeDance / Gloria McLean (Sunday) As part of a program of new works, Gloria McLean presents a quartet, "Dancing Without Illusion," inspired by the 101-year-old painter Will Barnet's 1950 essay of the same name as well as his paintings.
In 1998, the paper dragon illusion was inspired by Jerry Andrus for a celebration of Martin Gardner, one of the great mathematical games minds of our time.
Linas' Illusions is inspired by the intriguing notion that our brain can listen to sonic properties that seem to pop up out from nowhere.
Shannon says that the works in The First Six Aerial Paintings, including the space's floor itself (outfitted with a matrix of tape that creates yet another illusion), was also inspired by a DMT trip he experienced.
This benign neglect — or the artful illusion of it — has inspired loyalty in both patrons and staff.
Known as "Op" because of its tendency towards optical illusion, the art was inspired by the functional imperatives of the Bauhaus, but obviously took a left turn somewhere off that path.
Two pipers playing in a field around Stonehenge would have the sounds canceled out at certain spots, a sound illusion that may have inspired Stonehenge builders, according to a presentation given at the 2012 American Association for the Advancement of Sciences meeting.
Mathematically inspired, optical illusion-creating Dutch artist M.C.
Escher, thought to be one of the first artists to heavily incorporate optical illusions in his work, inspired many artists like Jos de Mey during his early 20th century career.
The first features work by Maltese, an artist from Toronto who creates paintings inspired by optical illusion and geometric pattern.
The pair had talked for 18 months over developing a piece on feminism and gender equality, inspired by The Equality Illusion: The Truth about Women and Men Today by Kat Banyard.
