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On View

We are currently closed for a building restoration project this summer. We will be reopening in the Fall and are excited for our upcoming exhibition with the artist Tourmaline. Our bookshop remains available for online orders.

Upcoming Exhibitions

Tourmaline: Lives of a Pollinator
will be on view from October 3 to December 21, 2025.

Tourmaline, Silver Wraith, 2022. Gelatin silver print, 10 x 10 inches (25.4 x 25.4 cm). Courtesy of the artist and Chapter NY.

Upcoming Programs

Our Fall Progams will be announced soon.  

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    CAMBRIDGE, MA 02138
    (617) 496-5387

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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.