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Welcome to the Department of the History of Art and Architecture

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

Department Announcements

Associate Professor Jacob Stewart-Halevy's new book The Casual. Downplaying Art Since California Conceptualism (The University of Chicago Press), it is hot hot hot off the presses!

The Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Tufts University's 2026 Graduate Symposium titled Resistance from Within: Art as Covert Defiance, will beheld on March 27, 2026, in Medford, MA. The deadline to submit proposals is December 21, 2025, for information about the symposium please follow this link to the CFP.

Please visit our Lecture Series page to browse and download information about the latest lectures.

For Transfer of Credit questions, please reach out to our Department Representatives or visit the Student Resources page for checklists, forms, and more.