OK, so the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts won't be talking about literal zombies or corpses. Rather, for an upcoming evening program, PAFA will discuss two macabre-sounding art terms: Zombie ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

FOUR international artists, each known for a distinctive practice, came together to paper-and-print gallery STPI to "play a professional game", so to speak. The game is called cadavre exquis ...

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 ...