Happy World Art Day! 🌍 🎨 At JSTOR, we’re celebrating the vibrant tapestry of creativity that colors our world. From the studios of renowned masters to the cozy corners where emerging talents find their voice, let’s honor the spaces that ignite imagination and the artists who bring them to life. Join us in celebrating the power of art to inspire, provoke, and unite us all.

Images:

Mihály Munkácsy. The Music Room. 1878. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Edgar Degas. Dancers in the Rehearsal Room with a Double Bass. ca. 1882-85. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Léon Cogniet. The Artist in His Room at the Villa Medici, Rome. 1817. Cleveland Museum of Art.

Jean-Alphonse Duplessy. Cobbler’s Quarters. 1860s. The Cleveland Museum of Art.

April is National Poetry Month, and at JSTOR, we celebrate the boundless creativity that poetry inspires across various forms of expression. 🎨 📜

This month, we highlight the seamless blend of visual art and verse, featuring stunning prints by William Blake from The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s open collection. Blake’s work exemplifies the powerful synergy between poetry and imagery, reminding us that words and art are profoundly interconnected.

Images: William Blake. Songs of Innocence: Spring. [1789] printed ca. 1825. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

William Blake. Songs of Experience: The Tyger. [1794] printed ca. 1825. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

William Blake. Songs of Experience: The Angel. [1794] printed ca. 1825. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

William Blake. Songs of Innocence: The Lamb. [1789] printed ca. 1825. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Anton Mauve (Dutch, Zaandam 1838–1888 Arnhem). Changing Pasture. ca. 1880. Oil on canvas, 24 x 39 5/8 in. (61 x 100.6 cm).

Open and available to all on JSTOR, courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Batman? Never heard of him. Is he anything like these 11th-16th c. humanoid-bat gold figures from what are now Panama and Costa Rica?

These images come from The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Cleveland Museum of Art, two great collections on JSTOR that are free and open to everyone.

More treasures from the Kentucky Folk Art Center collection on JSTOR. SNAKES! All free to browse and download.

Tim Lewis—Coral Snake Cane; Charley Kinney—"Who Look Snak Never Die"; Denzil Goodpaster—Coiled Rattlesnake; Charley Kinney—"Hean-Gok Got Radler"; Robert Morgan—"Serpent Queen of the Seas"

We just discovered the Kentucky Folk Art Center collection on JSTOR and we can’t even.

Here you see: a lion by Minnie Adkins, a tiger by Noah Kinney, a man and bear by Denzil Goodpaster, a “wild booger” by Charles Kinney, and an alligator by Minnie Black.

There are 470 additional images in the collection, and they’re all *chef’s kiss*. Free to everyone, no login needed.

Oof, this one is brutal: brass figurine from Southern Ghana or Mali depicting a leopard attacking a man (20th c.).

It comes from the Manchester School of Art Collection on JSTOR, which includes 400+ additional images open to everyone.

Happy Monday! Here are three Aztec stone snakes for you. The greenish one (13th-16th century) is from the Cleveland Museum of Art and the other two (15th-early 16th century) are from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, two open access collections on JSTOR.

The doors to science for too long were shut to women—and the struggle continues—yet women still have managed to contribute invaluable work. Here are 5 open collections on JSTOR that feature the work of important women botanists and botanical artists.

When Face ID is acting up and I have to lock in

Umberto Boccioni. Self-Portrait. 1910. Ink, wash and graphite on paper. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.