Two exhibitions on view in New York delve into artists' long-standing fascination with the unknown, and what it says about ...

We typically associate romance with images of sunsets on the beach and candlelit dinners. Not alien landscapes. But in 1936, it was a mysterious landscape painting that left American artist Kay Sage ...

In the opening scenes of the darkly comedic science fiction film “Landscape With Invisible Hand,” various paintings are shown: mom and dad, sister in the pool, a small market. Then things get murky ...

At the Oceanside Museum of Art, artist Robert Xavier Burden is ready to let the world enjoy his labor of love, the latest piece on a concept that sprang to life two decades ago: The Alien Painting.

Barlowe's Daggerwrist is one member of the menagerie of creatures that inhabit the artist's imaginary planet, Darwin. Living exclusively in the dwindling pocket-forests of the planet, these social, ...

‘Alien Shores’ explores landscape as a place of memory, imagination, yearning and belonging. Through painting, video, photography and sculpture, the artists included offer speculative, symbolic or ...

The Painted Hills are a truly bizarre and alien-looking landscape in Eastern Oregon. With rust, sand, tan, and grassy-colored layered hills, scarlet scarred slopes, and charming old-time towns dotted ...

America's geological wonders don't need erupting volcanoes to create breathtaking spectacles that look straight out of a science fiction movie. From towering mushroom-shaped rocks to mysterious moving ...