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Showtime’s “Twin Peaks: The Return,” which aired 18 episodes in 2017, was the most maximalist farewell imaginable, the kind of enormous canvas on which Lynch had always hoped to compose.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
Wilder was docked a point for pushing, and both men ended up on the canvas again in the 11th, though neither incident was ruled a knockdown.
From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026
There almost everything serves as a canvas, including painted trash doubling as decor and the silkscreened couch on which he’s seated.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2026
The artist’s intimate 1929 canvas, from her first stay in New Mexico, seems to gaze up at a towering tree with awe and fascination.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026
We rode there on a Liberty Truck, jostling in the back under a canopy of canvas.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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