Presented by: Harvard Art Museums
Admission: $5 for members

Members are invited to learn more about the Harvard Semitic Museum’s exhibit of the Throne of Egyptian Queen Hetepheres — a full-scale reproduction of an ancient Egyptian throne that dates to about 2550 BCE. Read more about Harvard Treasures Tour: Re-creating the Throne of Egyptian Queen Hetepheres, at the Harvard Semitic Museum

Presented by: Harvard Art Museums
Admission: Free with museum admission

Associate curator Melissa Moy will examine the impressive vessels currently on display in the University Study Gallery. Read more about Gallery Talk: Prehistoric Pottery from Northwest China

Presented by: Harvard Art Museums
Admission: Free

Screenings in Menschel Hall: The Figures Carved into the Knife by the Sap of the Banana Trees (2014); Lampedusa (2015); and Songhua (2007). Read more about Sensory Ethnography Lab: Experiments with Cinema

Presented by: Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
Admission: Free

Responding to the coup d’état and its aftermath in the 1970s, Chilean artists residing in Santiago and abroad created works that spoke to their experience of political, social, and geographic marginalization. They developed highly coded languages to evade censorship, exhibited work in public space in lieu of institutional support, and formed independently run galleries and artist Read more about Opening Reception for Embodied Absence: Chilean Art of the 1970s Now

Presented by: Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
Admission: Free
Runs: October 27-January 8, 2017
Opening Reception: Oct. 27, 2016, 5:30–7:30 pm

Responding to the coup d’état and its aftermath in the 1970s, Chilean artists residing in Santiago and abroad created works that spoke to their experience of political, social, and geographic marginalization. They developed highly coded languages to evade censorship, exhibited work Read more about Art Exhibition: Embodied Absence: Chilean Art of the 1970s Now

Presented by: Harvard Visual and Environmental Studies Department
Admission: Free

The Department of Visual and Environmental Studies is home to a range of studio and theoretical studies in the arts at Harvard University. It offers courses in painting, drawing, sculpture, film, video, and animation, as well as photography, film history and theory, studies of the built and natural environment, and contemporary art. The academic experience transpires partially in the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, where thinking and making—physical contact with various materials—intersect to enable students from a variety of disciplinary studies to be aware of their visual environment. Read more about Opening Reception for Art Exhibition: Visiting Faculty 2016-17

Presented by: Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts & VES
Admission: Free
Runs: August 25-October 1

The Visiting Faculty 2016–17 exhibition presents work by four visiting faculty in Visual and Environmental Studies. Read more about Art Exhibition: Visiting Faculty 2016-17

Presented by: Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
Admission: Free
Runs: October 24, 2014-October 2016

Level 1 + 3

Program by Martin Beck manifests through a sequence of interventions, installations, events, and publications that draw upon the exhibition histories and academic pursuits of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts and Department of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University. This Read more about Art Exhibition and Residency: Martin Beck: Program

Presented by: Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
Admission: Free
Runs: June 30-September 24

CRC/bookshop, Level 3

Make an Alloy, Make an Inventory imagines the CRC/ bookshop as a continuously rewritten page. Five discreet display areas in the bookshop house an evolving selection of images, objects, and books that find their origin in the inaugural 1968 issue of Stewart Brand’s Whole Earth Read more about Art Exhibition: Ryland Wharton: Make an Alloy, Make an Inventory

Presented by: Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
Admission: Free
Runs: August 4-September 24

Level 0 + 3, Display Case + CRC/bookshop

Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet: Three Works at the Carpenter Center comprises a video, film stills, an annotated script, and other materials related to three distinct films by Straub and Huillet. Each installation Read more about Art Exhibition: Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet: Three Works

Presented by: Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
Admission: Free
Runs: July 7-September 24 

Level 3, Sert Gallery

Fifty Photographs constitutes the final episode of Martin Beck’s Program at the Carpenter Center. Over the course of his two-year residency Beck has focused on various points of public interface that Read more about Art Exhibition: Fifty Photographs

Presented by: Harvard Ed Portal
Admission: Free
Runs: Friday, August 12, 2016, 5-7 PM  

Please join us at the Harvard Ed Portal’s Crossings Gallery on August 12 from 5 – 7 PM to celebrate the opening of "Changing Allston." Curator Eva Payne and several of the artists showing pieces will be in attendance to discuss the work and ideas that went into the exhibition.

Read more about Artist Reception: Changing Allston

Presented by: New England Foundation for the Arts
Admission: Free
Runs: Tuesday, August 2, 2016, 5:30 to 7 PM  

Join the New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) for a free info session on Creative City, a three-year pilot that makes grants to Boston area artists to create works that integrate public participation. This session is designed to help artists prepare applications. Artists are welcome to bring project ideas and Read more about Creative City Info Session