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How do images, objects, museums, and monuments shape our history and contemporary experience? Learn the history and dynamics of art: how to look and how to write critically about visual and material culture, past and present.

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Students, visitors and staff attend the opening reception at the Tufts University Art Gallery.

Visual Resources Collection

The Visual Resources Collection (VRC) located in the Fine Arts House supports the pedagogical needs of our faculty, students, and staff.

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Biblical Stories, South Facade, Church of Aghtamar, 915 CE

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Summer Newsletter with reflections from some of our undergraduate and MA students on research and internship experiences.

From work in museums and galleries around the country, to research with Tufts campus collections and in wondrous places in Norway and Spain, our students have had meaningful opportunities to broaden their horizons and make connections in the field. Read about their adventures and delight in the wonderful photos they shared!

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BA in Art History BA in Architectural Studies Joint BSE in Architectural Studies Minor in History of Art and Architecture Minor in Architectural Studies Minor in Museums, Memory, and Heritage Minor in Studio Art MA in Art History MA in Art History and Museum Studies

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Library of Sainte-Geneviève, Paris, 1838-1850, photo by Marie-Lan Nguyen

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When Cultural Monuments Become War Targets

Russian attack on the Dormition Cathedral in Kyiv shows the vulnerability of cultural heritage sites

Kendall Murphy

Art Outside the Museum Walls

Kendall Murphy, MA in Art History ‘26, reflects on her whirlwind graduate journey and the camaraderie she found at Tufts.

Kristen Lauritzen

Bridging Art, Politics, and Community

Winner of the Rhonda Saad Graduate Prize, Kristen Lauritzen, MA in Art History ‘26, looks back on her time at Tufts as she prepares for doctoral research.

Cover of Volume 1 of Tufts Undergraduate Journal of Art History

Ekphrasis: An Art History Graduate Journal

The inaugural issue of Ekphrasis: An Art History Graduate Journal, is officially published! The journal was produced by the art history graduate students of Tufts University, with the support of Tisch Library.

The Gates, Central Park, New York. Installation by Christo and Jeanne-Claude, 2005. Photo from Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress

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Installation of the mural "Two Ancient Chinese Tales (1983) by artist Yuan Yunsheng

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