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.

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 ...

“It’s a small world but I wouldn’t want to have to paint it,” American comic Steven Wright often quipped. Some though have turned that on its head to bring us visions of landscapes beyond Earth – ...

‘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 ...