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Catherine Tedford, the director of the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery at St. Lawrence University, curates the Street Art Graphics collection, undeniably one of the coolest resources in Shared Shelf Commons. Here she shares the history of street stickers...

What do you need to make art? Why, art, of course: the works that have come before provide inspiration, establish a tradition to follow and expand, and now, in our digital age, even provide the very materials to work with. The Metropolitan Museum of...

Entrance to the Met. Photo by Arad, CC BY-SA 3.0. Today, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, known by many as the Met, announced that it is placing more than 375,000 images of public-domain works in the museum’s collection under a Creative...

NEW RESOURCES The Metropolitan Museum of Art has just released 375,000 images of public domain artworks with a CC0 license. “The release, which covers images of the great majority of the museum’s holdings, is part of the Met’s Open Access initiative...

At the American Copy Editors' Society's annual conference this week, the Associated Press (AP) issued a decision that made journalists gasp: Writers can use "over" to compare quantities rather than "more than." Previously, the AP Stylebook taught...