The macabre name of this surrealist exercise has nothing to do with the fanciful nature of what is essentially a collaborative game. It's being played out by artists in "Exquisite Porch," an ...

Exquisite Corpse by Valentine Hugo, Andre Bretan, Tristan Tzara and Greta Knutson, "Landscape" (1933), colored pencil on black paper (via moma.org) With the hype surrounding the Cindy Sherman ...

Exquisite Corpse. The term seems bizarre, shocking, contradictory. It is also the name of Markeim Arts Center’s newest exhibit. The name might raise a few eyebrows, “but I view that as a good thing ...

Installation view of "Exquisite Corpses," featuring, (left) Carlos Rojas, “Apolo 0.9” (1966) and (right) Hans Bellmer, “Doll” (1936, cast 1965), painted aluminum (all photos by the author for ...

Artists often seclude themselves in their studios with nothing but their tools and their own imagination. That can get lonely. “I think people are craving collaborative projects,” said Katy Lemle, the ...

Sign up for City Lights, our twice-weekly guide to arts and nightlife in the D.C. area. It lands in your inbox every Sunday and Thursday. An exquisite-corpse exercise ...

You ever send a corpse through the mail, citizen? How about an exquisite corpse? An exquisite corpse is that old surrealist gambit of creativity, where a piece of paper is folded into thirds or ...

If you have a blank sketchbook lying around, “one weird trick” from the Surrealists can turn any social gathering into a collaborative art session. Instead of sequestering yourself at home with your ...