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Writing a sci-fi twist on a tale of a “healing journey” allowed Benjamin to stretch her canvas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
We encounter paintings on canvas and on copper; bronzes, terracottas and an impressive ivory; dispassionate portraits, intimate sketches and pitiless caricatures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
“If I say ‘Here’s a blank canvas, write me such and such,’ would that just be a melange of millions of other scripts?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Figma aims to bring new capabilities to the platform “and become the canvas for full-stack creation,” Melwani told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
In a new galley made by wrapping canvas around four oars stuck upright in the snow, Green kept the hot potato can stoked.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
Although his canvases typically sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars, when he completed a large mural for the Palestinian Museum, his requested fee was only a fig tree to be planted in the garden.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Breakfast burritos in L.A. are canvases for individual creative expression, innovations that graft global cuisines or basic energy bombs to fuel the day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Early in 2024, taggers began turning Oceanwide Plaza’s skyscrapers into canvases for graffiti.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
The intimacy of life and work are everywhere in the canvases, but Vermeer’s “sea of signs,” as Mr. Graham-Dixon calls it, resists reduction to narrative certainty.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
There is an art show in Brussels, and a Belgian newspaper reported that the canvases people are most excited and curious about are by Paul Cezanne, Alfred Sisley, Auguste Renoir—and Vincent Van Gogh!
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
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