Rock Stars, Mathematicians, and the Strange Appeal of Escher At Vorpal, the crowds weren’t your typical gallery-goers. Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin and Graham Nash of Crosby, Stills & Nash were early collectors. Professors stood shoulder to shoulder with rock stars, each enthralled by the precise madness of Escher’s imagery. Whether drawn by visual paradox, mathematical beauty, or sheer surrealism, visitors found something magnetic in the Dutch draftsman’s work. Vorpal was where those disparate fascinations converged. Vorpal Expands: Chicago, New York, Palm Beach Fueled by the momentum of its Escher exhibitions, Vorpal grew into a national presence, opening galleries in Chicago, New York, and Palm Beach. But even as it expanded geographically, it retained its original character—intellectually curious, artistically daring, and profoundly idiosyncratic. Vorpal Gallery: The Beatnik Haven That Became Escher’s American Stage

Vorpal Gallery: The Psychedelic Portal That Brought Escher to America

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Vorpal Gallery: The Beatnik Haven That Became Escher’s American Stage Tucked away in an alley beside City Lights Bookshop—epicenter of the Beat Generation and a crucible of countercultural energy—there emerged in the late 1960s a gallery that would dramatically reshape the American art world’s relationship with one of the 20th century’s most enigmatic visionaries: M.C….

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