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A maid of honor to the queen passes the time with canvas work.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026
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
“Space,” he writes, “remains an open canvas of possibilities: not merely a source of wonder and strategic importance, but also a reflection of who we are, and perhaps what we may become.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 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
A young painter from a studio down the hall, Burt Silverman, studied the canvas, an image of homeless men on the street in New York.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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