The New Museum, Manhattan’s only museum dedicated exclusively to contemporary art, today announced that its 60,000 sq ft building expansion designed by OMA / Shohei Shigematsu and Rem Koolhaas in ...

WORK AND ARTIST: “Necronom / Alien III” by HR Giger PRICE: $1 million EXACT LOCATION: Mai 36 Gallery booth at Art Basel WHY IT MATTERS: HR Giger was the artist behind the Xenomorph in Ridley S ...

Behind two of cinema’s most iconic extraterrestrials stands a single creative genius whose mechanical wizardry breathed life ...

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. Giger’s art, showcased in ...

Here’s a quick question: are Geiger and Giger (as in H.R. Giger, designer of the Alien Xenomorph) pronounced the same? The answer is no. Nevertheless, the late artist has had his name ...

Is it wrong to be captivated by unsettling art? There's a strangely invigorating energy associated with the chilling themes, styles, and compositions — elements that make unsettling art so compelling.