Slow art: Analyzing art in an image-saturated age
Educator Carson Smith shares a student research project that uses JSTOR and Workspace to help learners slow down, analyze art deeply, and build visual literacy skills.
Blog Tag: Artstor on JSTOR
Now available on JSTOR: Highlights from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is an encyclopedic museum with collections from across the globe. The images contributed to Artstor from the museum’s over 42,000 works of art reflect the diversity of the museum’s collections and the artistic culture of peoples across 5,000 years.
Monthly-wrap up: Spotlighting pride, prison newspapers, and a painter in June
June’s releases on JSTOR brought together book-length research, community newspapers, mining pamphlets, and an artist’s studio visit.
Monthly wrap-up: Maps, movements, and miniature pills in May
May’s additions to JSTOR opened new ways to engage with visual culture, political history, and everyday life.
Digitally archived primary sources are imperative to higher education
What would your classroom look like if students engaged with knowledge as detectives rather than passive readers? The answers lie in digital primary sources. And education depends on how we use them.
Winnipeg Art Gallery-Qaumajuq and Artstor on JSTOR: Making Canadian, Inuit, and Indigenous art more accessible
WAG-Qaumajuq is making its world-renowned collection of Canadian, Inuit, and Indigenous art more accessible—inviting global audiences to connect with these powerful works and the stories they hold.
Visual storytelling through new Centre de Monuments Nationaux and Magnum Photos launches
Two unique new selections of licensed digital images are now available on Artstor on JSTOR, made available through partnerships with Art Resource and Magnum Photos.
A digital time machine: The power of digital primary sources in higher education
Let’s take a time machine—right at your fingertips—with digital primary sources. Developing digital literacy and primary source analysis skills is essential in higher education, equipping learners not only for academia but also for careers in research, journalism, policy, and beyond.
Primary source literacy is a necessary 21st century skill
Primary sources offer direct, unfiltered access to the voices, images, and documents that shape our understanding of the world and its history. And yet, despite their value, primary source literacy remains an ongoing challenge in higher education.
Seeing the bigger picture: Exhibition photos as essential research and teaching tools
When we think about art historical research and teaching, individual artworks often take center stage. But what about the curated exhibitions that shape how we experience and interpret them? Beyond Utility: Rethinking the Value of Exhibition Photos in Art Historical Research and Curation—a session at the 2025 College Art Association (CAA) conference—explored the evolving role of exhibition photography.