When they announced their pregnancy, I offered to fly down for a weekend and paint a mural on the nursery ... she decided she hated it and had it painted over for some sad beige theme.

But for many years she has pursued a side passion: hand-painting vibrant, sprawling, unapologetically subjective maps of the world that offer a painterly twist on the visualization of data.

The Vault is Slate’s history blog ... of a hippopotamus comes from the hand of the celebrated Baroque painter Pieter Paul Rubens. Until 1800, this 1616 painting remained the only realistic ...

PARIS – The Paris Public Library’s Slate-Painting Auction for 2003 has begun ... The paintings are joined this year by a special hand-woven wool rug crafted by Methyl Belanger.

Meanwhile, the company is also dabbling with the idea of being a marketplace for artists looking to have their work recreated by hand. Artists upload the digital version of their painting or ...