The Montana Museum of Art and Culture will have to wait a little longer to find a proper showcase for its trove of art.
Monday’s news that a Virginia-based developer has purchased the Macy’s building in downtown Missoula means that the MMAC, Montana’s only state-owned museum devoted to art – and the only state-owned museum that lacks a public building of its own – likely won’t be moving into the 134-year-old building in the heart of Missoula.
“We’re disappointed, certainly,” said Barbara Koostra, director of the MMAC, the UM-based art collection that, for 117 years, has been a museum by name only. [Read More...]
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What’s your favorite album of this relatively new millenium? What film changed your life in the past ten years? Best book or videogame? Most memorable performance?
As the end of the first decade of the 2000′s approaches, the Missoulian is collecting guest reviews / odes / fawnings from readers about the greatest artistic products and local performances of the past ten years. We’ll run your essays in the paper and online starting Friday, Dec. 18. [Read More...]
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Pretty cool article in Britain’s Guardian newspaper about a new homeless shelter that looks like something straight from the pages of Dwell Magazine. Never before have I experienced “homeless shelter envy!”
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Last weekend, Patrick Williams sent me an email forward of a deeply moving essay and address by Karl Paulnack, pianist and director of the music division at the Boston Conservatory. Apparently I wasn’t the only one who recently received the forward; this is the same essay that UM music professor Gary Funk referenced in his comment on Sunday’s post.
I’m going to address Funk’s question in a post tomorrow; but I thought I’d first post up Paulnack’s entire essay (with permission). I was brought to tears three different times while reading it; it should be of interest to anyone who cares about music or the arts in general.
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As plenty of folks have now pointed out, and as we later corrected, a story ran in Saturday’s paper — written by yours truly — with a pretty glaring error featured in the body as well as the subhead of the story. The story, about the house that David and Stephanie Boone are building on Hickory Street in Missoula, stated (originally) that their final construction cost will average out to 45 cents per square foot, compared to a local baseline average (as stated in the story) of $1.50 per square foot.
As more than a few people pointed out before we corrected the story online, those figures were off by two decimal places: They should have been $45 and $150, respectively. Doh!
Further confusion and even some apparent anger ensued after one of our editors corrected the story online.
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I’m pretty excited to announce that the Missoulian Entertainer has finally — FINALLY!!!!!!!!!! — been redesigned as its own independent online destination site. This has been a thorn in my side pretty much since I got here, so I’m both proud and relieved of what we’ve done. (I actually didn’t do much except [...]
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The Wilma Theater is installing a huge new marquee today. Am I the only person who thinks it looks….um….somewhat phallic? Especially given its positioning on the building, somewhere around the waistline? Pointing upward? Brilliant red?
Supposedly this is a reproduction of the building’s original marquee from way back. So it’s a historical [...]
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