Eight years after its first appearance online, Marc H. Miller put the final touches on the website 98 Bowery: 1969–1989, A View from the Top Floor. More than half a million people have visited the site and read its history of art and music in the Lower East Side, as Miller experienced it. Over the course of 2016, the Gallery 98 newsletter tracked progress on the site.
The Work of a Curator, 1985–89
A chapter on Miller’s late-’80s tenure as curator at the Queens Museum concludes the 98 Bowery narrative. His 2016 return to the museum, as curator of the exhibition “Hey! Ho! Let’s Go! Ramones and the Birth of Punk,” provides an unexpected epilogue.
6/9/2016
Action at a Downtown Loft
A full description of the 98 Bowery website and its commercial counterpart, Gallery 98. As Emily Collucci wrote in Hyperallergic, Miller “has emerged with his website 98 Bowery and online gallery Gallery 98 as one of the main supporters of 1970s art.”
10/6/2016
Postscript to a Lower East Side Story
98 Bowery ends with a philosophical note: a postscript reflecting on the dichotomy of personal and public history, and on the Internet’s ability to sustain memories of the past into the future.
10/18/2016
