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On View

Tourmaline: Lives of a Pollinator
is on view until December 21 in Level 3.

Tourmaline, Silver Wraith, 2022. Gelatin silver print. Courtesy of the artist and Chapter NY.

Upcoming Exhibitions

Cinematic Involutions
will be on view from October 17 to December 21, 2025.

Simon Liu, Still from E-Ticket, 2019. 35mm to single-channel Digital Video, color, stereo sound, 12:57 minutes. Courtesy of the artist.

Upcoming Programs

Performance and Opening Reception for Cinematic Involutions

October 16–October 17, 2025

AFVS Alumni Gatherings: Michael Wang

October 17, 2025, 8:30–9:30pm

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The Carpenter Center is the only building in North America designed by Swiss-born architect Le Corbusier.  Learn more about the architecture of our iconic building.

The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts shares the building with the department of art, film, and visual studies and the harvard film archive.

Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. Photo: Aerial Photography of New England.

Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. Photo: Aerial Photography of New England.