On a balmy afternoon last month, French artist Pierre Huyghe stood in front of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts with the building’s designer, the Swiss-born architect Le Corbusier.

Appropriately enough, it was the ramp of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts (CCVA) that bore its christening on May 27, 1963. That evening, a “family party” was held in honor of the ...

DIEDRICK BRACKENS AND KATHERINE BRADFORD Through Dec. 23, the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts at Harvard University. 24 Quincy St., Cambridge. 617-496-5387, www.carpenter.center.

FRAGMENTS OF A FAITH FORGOTTEN: The Art of Harry Smith. At Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge, through Dec. 1. 617-496-5387, carpenter.center ...

C AMBRIDGE — There’s a lot going on in “Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith.” Spread over two floors of Harvard’s Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, the show ...

Jeffrey Schnapp is the founder/faculty director of metaLAB (at) Harvard and one of the faculty co-directors of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. He holds the ...