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michael kenna, kostuik gallery, jennifer kostuik, yaletown, photography exhibition, vancouver, bc, canada, west coast fine art

From a Business Card to a Seven-Year Partnership: Michael Kenna and Kostuik Gallery

Yaletown is slightly overcast, the lush dampness of the foliage hanging in the air. From a chair inside Kostuik Gallery, I watch couples on the street socializing with their dogs and hot coffees as wet leaves lay heavy on the sidewalk. Within the gallery’s four walls, the light is bright and the room is calm,...

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The Best of VIFF 2026, From a 196-Minute Masterpiece to an Underdog Favourite

The Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) has wrapped its 45th edition, and critics and audiences agree that it was a huge hit! From multiple sold-out showtimes to added titles to the launch of the Luminary Award, VIFF has demonstrated that Vancouver’s flagship film festival is ready for its close-up. Highlights of the year included the...

CHAN HON GOH, goh ballet, canadian culture, west coast luxury, ecoluxury, elevated lifestyle, vancouver, bc, yvr, helen siwak

The Discipline Behind the Grace: Chan Hon Goh’s Next Act

Chan Hon Goh has spent four decades chasing a single standard: excellence that never stops moving. Long before her recent appointment, she was a child in a Vancouver studio, absorbing correction after correction with a focus that set her apart even then. “When I reflect on what it means to become Vice President of the...

danny singer, gallery jones, canadian artist, fine art gallery, awardwinning artist, helen siwak, folioyvr, vancouver, bc, yvr

Danny Singer: The Main Street Project x A Prairie Vision

Danny Singer photographs the entire main streets of small prairie towns. Not a building here, a storefront there, but the whole street, stitched together from as many as one hundred and fifty sequential images into a single seamless panorama. Every structure is shot straight on. No angle, no drama, no cheating the perspective. The effect...

From Seminary to Silver Gelatin: The Fifty-Year Career of Michael Kenna

Michael Kenna was on course to become a priest. Raised in a working-class Irish-Catholic family in Lancashire, England, he attended a Catholic seminary school until 1972, when a childhood love of art pulled him in another direction. He has since spent fifty years working at dawn and through the night, leaving his shutter open for...

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Finding Beauty in Fukushima: Michael Kenna’s Quiet Act of Regeneration

A photograph taken at dawn, in near silence, with the shutter open for minutes rather than a fraction of a second. That is how Michael Kenna has made his living for fifty years — and it is how he approached a place most of the world still associates with catastrophe. Kostuik Gallery presents Beautiful Fukushima,...

VIFF 2026 Raises the Curtain on Its 45th Year

It is September, which means no rest for the serious cineaste! We have just returned from the Toronto International Film Festival, and the fall festival calendar still includes London, New York, Busan, Tokyo, and Zurich. Yet one festival remains nearest and dearest to our hearts: the Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF). Now in its 45th...

kostuik gallery, sculpture, west coast lifestyle, art world, canadian fine art gallery, helen siwak, folioyvr, yvr, bc

Against the Grain: A Gallery, Two Sculptors, and a Shared Material

Wood does not lie. Every ring, every knot, every uneven grain records exactly how long it took to grow — and at Kostuik Gallery, that honesty is precisely the point. Against the Grain puts two women in a material still widely assumed to belong to men, and lets the wood itself argue the case for...

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VIFF Talks 2026: Inside the Craft Behind Cinema’s Biggest Moments

What does it take to turn a Vancouver stage into a masterclass? The Vancouver International Film Festival has an answer this October, unveiling the official program for VIFF Talks, a series that pulls back the curtain on the people shaping this year’s most talked about films. Running October 3 to 7 as part of the...

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Ten Days at TIFF 2026: Red Carpets, Rapturous Crowds, and the Films Worth Remembering

We just spent an action-packed 10 days at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), full of great (and not so great) films, red carpets, celebrities, and pure crowd energy. It is always great to see the city out in full force to celebrate cinema and art collectively. Our journey this year included our first ever...

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