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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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Sol Gittleman Professor Malcolm Turvey has published a new book Film, Art and the Limits of Science: In Defense of Humanistic Explanation (Palgrave Macmillan 2025).

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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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Shining a Light on U.S. Latinx Art and Artists

Professor Adriana Zavala co-founded an organization to bring visibility to often-overlooked artists of Latin American and Caribbean ancestry in the U.S.