canvas

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Bean’s “Boat and Tote” canvas bag, and Pidgeon carries it in the show.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 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

“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

The Morgan Library & Museum puts the Baroque master’s early canvas in the context of his contemporaries and precursors, emphasizing his extraordinary naturalism.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

Ignoring me, Sela sat next to Auntie, a curtain of dark hair glowing red around the edges briefly blocking her face as she set her canvas bag on the ground.

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