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.

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Yves Tanguy's “I Await You (Je vous attends)," 1934. (Los Angeles County Museum of Art/Museum Associates/Estate of Yves Tanguy/Artists Rights Society, New York) Perspective by Kelsey Ables We ...

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 ...

‘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 ...