Exhibitions and screenings

AFVS Spring 2023 Open Studios will take place on Friday, April 28th from 5:00pm to 7:00pm on levels B, 1 , 2, 3, 4, and 5 of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, at 24 Quincy Street. Artwork made this semester in all AFVS studio classes will be on...

In her essential, urgent, and arrestingly structured new documentary from Participant, Academy Award®–winning filmmaker Laura Poitras ( Citizenfour) weaves two narratives: the fabled life and career of era-defining artist Nan Goldin and the downfall of...

The new film by AFVS alumnus ('13) Daniel Goldhaber, in collaboration with and edited by AFVS alumnus ('13) Daniel Garber, How to Blow Up a Pipeline follows a group of young environmental activists as they plan to sabotage and explode an oil pipeline in...

Five centuries ago, anatomist Andreas Vesalius opened up the human body to Western science for the first time in history. Today, “De Humani Corporis Fabrica” opens the body to the cinema. It reveals that human flesh is a landscape of unknown and...

Józef Czapski (1896-1993) witnessed the tumult of twentieth century Europe firsthand, as a military officer, an art and literary critic, a disciplined chronicler of his own experiences, and above all, as a painter skilled at isolating the subtle...

Martine Syms is a 2022 Josep Luís Sert Practitioner in the Arts in the Department of Art, Film and Visual Studies. In collaboration with AFVS and the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, the Harvard Film Archive is pleased to welcome Martine Syms for a...

Martine Syms is a 2022 Josep Luís Sert Practitioner in the Arts in the Department of Art, Film and Visual Studies. In collaboration with AFVS and the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, the Harvard Film Archive is pleased to welcome Martine Syms for a...

Martine Syms is a 2022 Josep Luís Sert Practitioner in the Arts in the Department of Art, Film and Visual Studies. In collaboration with AFVS and the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, the Harvard Film Archive is pleased to welcome Martine Syms for a...

Please join the Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies in celebrating Open Studios on Friday, April 29, from 6:00pm-8:00pm. Open Studios will take place in the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, located at 24 Quincy Street, as well as in Linden...