matthew j piper

Last Sunday morning, after the season’s first snow, Michel and I went to Eliza Howell Park in Detroit’s Brightmoor neighborhood to see Nort...

It's been eight days since the Detroit production of Bliss , the titanic performance installation staged by Michigan Opera Theatre in th...

Last month I learned of the passing of Dr. María Gonzalez, an extraordinary woman I had the good fortune to know during my graduate studies ...

I'm pleased to share my latest short piece for Essay'd : a consideration of the work of Detroit visual artist Lester Johnson (b. 1...

On a sunny Saturday in mid-March, shortly before the world as I knew it came to an end, I was browsing Dennis A. Nawrocki's invaluable g...

Back in 2016 I organized a screening of dance films at Play House , an intimate performance space in Detroit run by The Hinterlands  as par...

I was grateful to have the opportunity to speak with Ryan Patrick Hooper on WDET's Culture Shift about my recent article for Curbed o...