While the tradition of drawing games has been around a long time, French Surrealist André Breton and his group of artsy friends are credited with making Exquisite Corpse popular in the 1920s. They ...

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 ...

TikTokers are playing the "exquisite corpse" game that was beloved by Surrealists. (graphic Valentina Di Liscia/Hyperallergic) Who remembers playing Exquisite Corpse as an icebreaker during arts and ...

In this playful and fun filled exhibition member of the community collaborated in the making of Exquisite Corpse drawings. Exquisite Corpse is a game in which a participant makes a drawing on a sheet ...

The exquisite corpse is a combination of art form and parlor game developed by the surrealists in the early part of the last century. Originally a written art form that has expanded to visual art, the ...

In the early 1920s, André Breton used the phrase “pure psychic automatism” to describe a particular methodology employed by members of an avant-garde movement known as surrealism. Over 100 years later ...

LOS ANGELES — Just a day after I reviewed LACMA’s In Wonderland exhibition of surrealist female artists, I came across their new app. Designed by media artist Jody Zellen, Art Swipe starts you off ...

Rest assured, we’re not talking about dead people. Jon Scieszka, the first National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, wrote the first episode of a children’s book and passed it on to a group ...

m97 Gallery Shanghai is pleased to present "EXQUISITE CORPSE: China Surreal", a dynamic group exhibition of photographic works. Co-curated by Mathieu Borysevicz and m97 Gallery, this exhibition uses ...

Theater artist Jacky Kelsey was driving back from their grandmother’s farm when five white owls appeared out of nowhere and flew over the car. It was a “spooky, alien site,” they said. Throughout ...

The phrase "exquisite corpse" originates from a surrealist game in which sentences were created by a group of people, each person not knowing what the previous words were. In this WAD, each of the 12 ...