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Dubois set up a knockdown with a sharp double jab followed by a left hook, sending Harper to the canvas.

From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026

“Sinners” is a meditation on how the past’s crimes and terrors bleed into the present, rendered by a Black artist using a popular genre, horror, as half of his canvas.

From Salon • Mar. 13, 2026

Caravaggio’s “Boy With a Basket of Fruit,” one of his most dazzlingly beautiful juvenilia, bears the sumptuous hallmarks of his bold style and technique, in which he eschewed drawing to paint directly on canvas.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

She points to the orange fence on the right hand picture which looks like a handle and the entire white canvas of the left hand painting which resembles the blade.

From BBC • Feb. 24, 2026

In front of it, a girl about your age is singing along to the next song, spread out on a Heart Berry blanket staring at a canvas.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith