Carpenter Center
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Welcome to the bookshop! Making books with artists is central to the Carpenter Center’s mission.

Our publishing program complements our commission-based curatorial program, with a focus on new scholarship and texts, and an artist-involved design process. We publish a few books
a year, and release a new tote bag design annually, so please check back for new totes and titles!

Publications

Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson

One Day in June

Boston Art Review Issue 15

Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith

In Conversation, 2020–2021: Dialogues with Artists, Curators, and Scholars

B. Ingrid Olson: History Mother, Little Sister

Renée Green: Pacing

Tony Cokes – If UR Reading This It’s 2 Late: Vol. 1-3

Anna Oppermann: Drawings

Liz Magor: BLOWOUT

What Ever Happened to New Institutionalism?

Candice Lin: Seeping, Rotting, Resting, Weeping (Out of Stock)

Questions to Ask Before Your Bat Mitzvah (Published by Wendy's Subway)

Carpenter Center Merch

Spiral Tote Bag

Carpenter Center Hat

Other Printed Matter

Candice Lin Exhibition Poster

Brutalist Boston Map

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    (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.