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This Machine Creates Opacities: Robert Fulton, Renée Green, Pierre Huyghe, and Pope.L

Oct 6 – Dec 22, 2023

Harvard Gazette: At 60, Carpenter Center takes a rare look back

Morgan Bassichis: More Little Ditties

Jun 30 – Sep 3, 2023

Harvard Gazette: ‘Funny ... frivolous ... serious’

Please Stay Home: Darrel Ellis in Dialogue with Leslie Hewitt and Wardell Milan

February 3 – April 9, 2023

Harvard Gazette: Plea from 1980s New York: 'Please Stay Home'
Boston Globe: Darrel Ellis: A fracture life in pictures at the Carpenter Center

B. Ingrid Olson: History Mother, Little Sister

July 22–December 23, 2022

BOMB Magazine: Any Room Can Be a Camera: B. Ingrid Olson Interviewed by Jared Quinton
The Modern Art Notes Podcast: NO. 566: B. INGRID OLSON, REINVENTING THE AMÉRICAS
Art Forum: B. Ingrid Olson
Mousse Magazine: Don't Flinch: B. Ingrid Olson

Candice Lin: Seeping, Rotting, Resting, Weeping

February 4–April 10, 2022

Art Papers: Candice Lin: Seeping, Rotting, Resting, Weeping
Art Review: Candice Lin’s Cat Demons Will Heal You
Boston Globe: Candice Lin turns survival, solitude, and loss into art
Harvard Gazette: Year of living pandemically
Harvard Magazine: A Post-Plague Outpost
Los Angeles Times: Candice Lin creates a beast-filled world that riffs on colonialism — and internet cats
Mousse Magazine: Candice Lin “Seeping, Rotting, Resting, Weeping” at Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge

Diedrick Brackens and Katherine Bradford

September 24–December 23, 2021

Boston Globe: Painter Katherine Bradford and weaver Diedrick Brackens pair up in exhibition at Harvard’s Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
Harvard Magazine: Reflections of Pandemic Intimacy
WGBH: Arts This Week: Exploring spaces real and imagined

Tony Cokes: If UR Reading This, It's 2 Late: Vol. 2

January 31–April 12, 2020

Boston Globe: Media is a weapon, mirror for artist Tony Cokes
Contemporary Art Daily: Tony Cokes at Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
Artnet: Editors' Picks: 7 Events for Your Virtual Art Calendar This Week

Jonathan Berger: An Introduction to Nameless Love

October 17–December 29, 2019

The Harvard Gazette: New art exhibition explores relationships outside of romance
WNYC: Michael Stipe and Jonathan Berger: An Introduction to Nameless Love
The New York Times: Four Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now
The Brooklyn Rail: Jonathan Berger: An Introduction to Nameless Love
Forbes: Jonathan Berger’s New Exhibition Is A Cathedral To True Love

Anna Oppermann: Drawings

June 22–September 29, 2019

Art in America: Anna Oppermann’s Surreal Still Lifes Play with Perceptions of the Domestic Sphere

Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts announce 2019 and 2020 exhibitions

Press Release

Liz Magor: BLOWOUT

January 31–March 24, 2019

The Brooklyn Rail: Liz Magor: Blowout
Artforum: Liz Magor
The Harvard Gazette: Lost and Found
Boston Globe: The things they carried, in a striking show at Harvard
artnet news: ‘Everyone Should Have a Studio’: Artist Liz Magor on the Sanctuary Where She Translates Humble Objects Into Precious Artworks
ARTNews: Winter Preview: The Most Promising Museum Shows and Biennials Around the World
Art in America: 2018–19 PREVIEW

Introducing Tony Conrad: A Retrospective

October 18–December 30, 2018

Hyperallergic: A Mad Scientist of the New York Avant-Garde Gets a Retrospective
National Sawdust Log: In Review: Henry Flynt + Lary 7 Ensemble
Harvard Gazette: Tony Conrad: an artist of the avant-garde and everyday
Boston Globe: Tony Conrad fought the snob art of the social climbers
Flash Art: Flash Art 322 September – October 2018
Art in America: 2018–19 PREVIEW

Time is Now: Photography and Social Change in James Baldwin's America

September 13–December 30, 2018

The Patriot Ledger: Photos document African-American life and social change during James Baldwin’s life
What Will You Remember?: Best Photo Picks December 2018!
Delicious Line: Time is Now: Photography and Social Change in James Baldwin's America
The Harvard Gazette: Taking it all personally
photograph: Makeda Best by Jean Dykstra
The Tufts Daily: Harvard’s Carpenter Center explores James Baldwin’s world in photography exhibition
BlouinArtinfo: "Time is Now: Photography and Social Change in James Baldwin's America," at Harvard Art Museums
Boston Globe: Harvard art exhibits remind us James Baldwin was right. Time for change is now.
Index Magazine, Harvard Art Museums: Scenes from James Baldwin's World
Harvard Magazine: James Baldwin's America, in Photos
Boston Globe: The Ticket: What's happening in the local arts world

Fall Arts Preview: Art Picks

September 6, 2018

Boston Globe

The 100 Best Buildings in Boston

July 25, 2018

The Boston Globe

Renée Green: Within Living Memory

Feb 2–Apr 15, 2018

Arte & Ensaios: Houses, Transits and Movements (English PDF) (Spanish PDF)
Contemporary Art Daily: Renée Green at Carpenter Center
Boston Globe: Renée Green makes past present at Harvard's Carpenter Center
Art in America: Inhabiting Modernism: Renée Green at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
Harvard Magazine: Time in space: profile of artist Renée Green
Art in America: In the Studio: Renée Green
Boston Globe: The Ticket: What's happening in the arts world

A more collaborative Carpenter Center

Nov 29, 2017

Harvard Gazette: New director Dan Byers expands on ambition to build community around contemporary art

Matt Keegan: Replicate

Oct–Jan, 2017

BOMB Magazine: Word Prompts: Matt Keegan’s Replicate by Claire Barliant
Boston Globe: At Harvard's Carpenter Center, examining the particularities of perception
Big Red and Shiny: Family Resemblances: Matt Keegan at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts

Martin Beck: Program and Publication, An Organized System of Instructions

ED 1 Architecture of Architecture: Interview with Martin Beck
The Avery Review: The How of an Exhibition: On Martin Beck’s An Organized System of Instructions

CCVA Fall Exhibitions Press Release

Oct 2017

Renée Green CCVA Exhibition Highlighted in Art in America Guide 2017

Sep 2017

Artist Spotlight: Dan Byers

Sep 19, 2017

The Harvard Crimson

CCVA Announces Fall Exhibitions and Programs

Aug 2017

Allison Smith: Common Goods

June 27, 2017

Big Red and Shiny: Interview with Allison Smith

Eduard Sekler, Carpenter Center's inaugural director

May 18, 2017

Harvard Gazette: Eduard Sekler, Carpenter Center's inaugural director, dead at 96

Dan Byers appointed new John R. and Barbara Robinson Family Director

May 2, 2017

Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts: Dan Byers appointed new Director of Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University
ARTnews: Dan Byers Named Director of Harvard's Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
Artforum: Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts Appoints Dan Byers as Director
Boston Globe: ICA's Dan Byers is heading to Harvard
Harvard Gazette: Carpenter Center appoints new director

CCVA Announces Summer and Fall Exhibitions and Programs

May 2017

Damon Krukowski with Amanda Palmer: The New Analog

Apr 18, 2017

Harvard Gazette: Sounding off for noises on

Consumer Research Center/bookshop

Level 3

Harvard Crimson: Consumer Research Center Brings Bookshop and Cultural Critique to CCVA
Harvard Crimson: Inside the CCVA: Pop Goes the Bookshop

Silvia Benedito + C. Alexander Häuser: Pneuma(tic) Bodies

Feb 3–21, 2016

The Harvard Crimson: 'Pneumat(ic) Bodies' Explores Atmosphere in Sculpture Form
Harvard Gazette: Pneuma(tic) Bodies at Carpenter Center: Movement, air, space together
Boston Globe: Playful Balloons

An Interview with James Voorhies

Jan 4, 2016

Big Red & Shiny: Boston Common: An Interview with James Voorhies

Lorraine O'Grady: Where Margins Become Centers

Oct 29, 2015–Jan 10, 2016

Big Red & Shiny: Lorraine O'Grady-Where Margins Become Centers
Harvard Magazine: The Art of Juxtapositions
Harvard Gazette: At 81, her first solo show at home
Boston Globe: Body images on display at Harvard
Hyperallergic: A Walk Through the World of Lorraine O'Grady
Boston Globe: Looking back over a year in Boston's galleries
The Brooklyn Rail: In Conversation: Lorraine O'Grady with Jarrett Earnest
Art in America: Lorraine O'Grady

Shahryar Nashat: Skin and Stand-ins

Oct 29, 2015–Jan 10, 2016

Harvard Gazette: Art that interrupts
Boston Globe: Body images on display at Harvard

Futurefarmers–A Farm Sailed Away and Came Back a Garden

Nov 5, 2015

Harvard Gazette: A grain of creativity

Mare Liberum: or, The Other Island

Sep 1–27, 2015

Hyperallergic: A Brooklyn Art Collective Builds Boats in Boston
Big Red & Shiny: A Building Session with Mare Liberum
Boston Globe, Beta Boston: Handmade boats bring citizen science to the Mystic River

Summer Summits: Notes from Further afield

July 22–Aug 12, 2015

Harvard Gazette: Bringing far nearer: Arts leaders to share travel stories at Carpenter Center

The Way We Live Now, Modernist Ideologies at Work

Feb 5–Apr 5, 2014

The Boston Globe: Celebrating High Modernism while Exposing its Flaws
The Arts Fuse: The Way We Live Now—Blending Modernist Architecture and Contemporary Art, An Interview with James Voorhies
Harvard Crimson: Carpenter Center's Exhibition Recalls 'The Way We Live Now'

Simon Fujiwara: Three Easy Pieces

Oct 23–Dec 21, 2014

The Boston Globe: Fujiwara tweaks societal stereotypes at Carpenter Center
The Arts Fuse: Simon Fujiwara at Harvard’s Carpenter Center — A Canny, Wildly Funny Lens on Modern Ideas
artscope: Three Easy Pieces. Fujiwara Cultivates Confusion (download PDF)
Harvard Crimson: Carpenter Center Unveils Simon Fujiwara Exhibit
Harvard Crimson: Not So Easy. Simon Fujiwara's Immersive and Personal Three Easy Pieces

New Program

Oct 20, 2014

Harvard Gazette: Building Outward: New Director Brings Collaborative Vision to the Carpenter Center

Visiting Faculty 2014–15

Aug 28–Sep 28, 2014

Harvard Crimson: Portrait of an Artist: David Hilliard

James Voorhies appointed John R. and Barbara Robinson Family Director

Feb 5, 2014

Bureau of Open Culture: The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts appoints James Voorhies as Director
Harvard Crimson: Voorhies Assumes Director Position at the Carpenter Center
Harvard Gazette: James Voorhies appointed John R. and Barbara Robinson Family Director

50th Anniversary of the Carpenter Center

Aug 30, 2012–May 27, 2013

Architect's Newspaper: Le Corbusier's Carpenter Center For Visual Arts: Fifty Years Later
Architectural Record: Fifty Years Later, Still Scandalizing the Neighbors
Art New England: Looking Back: Inside the Carpenter Center
Harvard Crimson: A Modern Moment
Harvard Gazette: Getting to 50 - Deep experience informs Sekler's view of Carpenter Center
Public Radio International: The ugliest building on Harvard's campus just might be its most beautiful