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Did you know you can upload your own images to Artstor? You can then work with them seamlessly alongside our collections. Learn how on our […]
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JSTOR users at institutions that also subscribe to Artstor may encounter a colorful surprise: some search results on JSTOR are now displaying image results from […]
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Good news! Artstor has made more than 1 million image, video, document, and audio files from public institutional collections freely available to everyone—subscribers and non-subscribers […]
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Guest post by Raymond Pun Raymond Pun is the first-year-student success librarian at the Henry Madden Library, Fresno State. He coordinates and organizes the first […]
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Have you ever wanted a better understanding of how an artwork or architectural detail was originally intended to be viewed? Artstor’s Virtual Reality Panoramas are […]
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I recently found myself exploring the amazing world of netsuke using Artstor’s new comparison mode to perform that timeless task: double-slide projection. Boy, has it ever […]
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“Majolica” is the word used to denote the brightly colored, low-fired earthenware commercially introduced by the Minton Company at the 1851 London Exhibition of All […]
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Truman Capote’s fame transcended his literary status; he was famous for being, well, famous half a century before reality television and social media stars even […]
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Did you know that nearly 20% of Artstor’s more than 2 million images are photographs? This summer we released a new collection of over 36,000 […]
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Did you know that Artstor does not own the rights to the images in our collections? When you search Artstor you may be viewing images […]
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From the wild wolves of our ancestors to today’s lap dogs, canines have played an important role in the lives of humans. They helped hunters […]
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On a warm day in 1749, 14-year-old Brook Watson dove into Havana Harbor for a swim. As he floated surrounded by merchant ships, a shark […]
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Persuasive Cartography: The PJ Mode Collection is a physical and digital open access collection of maps donated to Cornell University Library’s Rare and Manuscript Collections. This […]
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When the second wave feminist movement in the 1970s brought domestic art into the discussion of art history, textiles became a central topic. This led […]
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Editor’s note: this post was originally published in June 2017 and has been updated to reflect Artstor’s platform changes. Persuasive Cartography: The PJ Mode Collection is […]
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June is the most popular month to marry, an excellent reason to take a look at one of the world’s most famous wedding paintings–although we ended […]
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The more than 350,000 photographs in the Artstor Digital Library are not only there for the study of art—they also tell stories of our past. […]
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Editor’s note: this post was originally published in May 2017 and has been updated to reflect Artstor’s platform changes. We invited Marta Chudolinska, Learning Zone […]
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Cornell: Historic Glacial Images of Alaska and Greenland archive is a magnificent photographic assemblage of Arctic expeditions undertaken by Cornell faculty in the late 19th and […]
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To mark the release of 2,600 images from Bard Graduate Center Gallery in the Artstor Digital Library, Bard’s curatorial team discusses the institute’s history and […]
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William Blake is perhaps the most famous artist born out of the British Romantic period, mostly known for his writing, paintings, and printmaking. But much […]
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To celebrate the recent addition of nearly 500 images from SFMOMA’s permanent collection to the Artstor Digital Library, Nancy Minty, Artstor’s collections editor, examines more […]
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March is Women’s History Month, and we’re celebrating women who shaped the political and social landscape of America with a tour of an expansive photographic […]
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Artstor has recently made available images of commercial art, canonical works, and thousands of personal Polaroids from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. […]
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Tuskegee University Archives recently released new recordings from the Tuskegee Civic Association records that feature prominent leaders of the Civil Rights Movement. These speeches, addressing the […]
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Michael Hermann, Director of Licensing at The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, explains how the Foundation’s collections in the Artstor Digital Library provide a […]
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In our previous post I introduced our new Principles and Elements of Design resource (which you can find in Teaching Resources under Studio Art) and […]
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One of the most daunting challenges I faced teaching in a high school art program was developing a common language to articulate the principles and […]
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Today’s Open Access initiative by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and their generous partnership with Artstor help ensure that these images will reach scholarly audiences […]
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Back at school and looking to get started working in Artstor? Here are some tips and reminders from the experts in User Services to help […]
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