“I am afraid of my visions.” Thus spoke H.R. Giger, the artist whose paintings led to him being engaged by director Ridley Scott to design the xenomorph for the first Alien film in the late 1970s.

If you want to see glossy photographs of alien worlds, your desires may be fulfilled in an unexpected place: the prehistory of homo sapiens. NYU anthropologist Randall White’s beautiful book ...

Nothing like a few aliens to spice up the history of Western art. Breda O’Donoghue takes classic art by famous Western artists like Michelangelo (above), Matisse and Frida Kahlo, replaces some of the ...