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The fight continued and Wilder pushed Chisora over in the fifth before landing after the bell in the sixth, while both men tumbled to the canvas more than once.

From BBC • Apr. 4, 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

“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

But Musselman told the Arenas family from the beginning that he would give Alijah a blank canvas on which to create and the space to make mistakes, to grow.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2026

He settles on a blank spot above his fireplace, and he hangs it there, making the tiniest adjustments until the canvas is perfectly set against the wall.

From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day