Might we have lost something by forcing contemporary playwrights to work on a smaller canvas?

WSJ: Theater Once Drew Crowds Onstage, Too | Sightings by Terry Teachout

While much of her work graphically depicts her physical suffering (a famous canvas shows Frida as a bleeding deer shot with arrows), the letters reveal her stoic side.

FORBES: Frida On The Block

Now an X-ray of Van Gogh's 1889 work The Ravine has uncovered the earlier work, which the artist had painted on the same canvas four months previously.

BBC: NEWS | Entertainment | Van Gogh work 'by another artist'

Only four or five colours (and only the local colours of the object), only the brush, an empty canvas without preliminary sketches and, at most, a day to work in.

ECONOMIST: Avigdor Arikha, painter of life, died on April 29th, aged 81

Often referred to as "the stripe guy" by American art critics who homed in on his artworks using striped awning canvas or contrasting maxi stripes, in more recent years, Mr. Buren's work has become increasingly architectural and, indeed, monumental.

WSJ: Daniel Buren's Bright Periphery | 'Excentrique(s) Travail In Situ' at the Grand Palais in Paris