About six centuries ago, an Italian scribe painstakingly lettered and illuminated a page of a missal, a book containing prayers and instructions...
Arts & Culture
March 15, 2011 Slideshow
Rare manuscripts and book fragments discovered in the stacks at Tisch Library
February 15, 2011
MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. – A Tufts University team today announced the winners of the 501c3: Capturing Change on Camera inaugural video...
February 11, 2011 Large Image
Tracing the history of courtship in 20th century America highlights the changing relationship between the sexes
In 1901, a young man who was smitten with a girl would wait for an invitation to come calling at her home. They would likely meet in the parlor,...
February 8, 2011 Large Image
A fresh look at a lip-smacking subject
Kissing is so commonplace that we seldom ask ourselves why we do it or what is happening in our bodies and in our brains when we do it. But as...
February 3, 2011 Slideshow
New Tufts Art Gallery exhibition highlights works hidden in the shadows for decades
Pop Art brings certain images to mind—Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s soup cans, Roy Lichtenstein’s oversized cartoon strip icons and Robert Rauschenberg...