02/10/2026
What’s Your Greatest Fear? Long Island Women Respond, and Other Works, 1972-81
An Artist Talk by Marc H Miller
WHEN: Saturday, February 21, 2:30pm
WHERE: Immersion Room, 7th Floor, NYU Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square South
Free and open to the public. Non-NYU guests must RSVP for Bobst Library entry: [email protected]
In the early 1970s, artist Marc H. Miller turned away from the cold aridity of much conceptual practice and becoming more interested in people - their thoughts, behaviour, concealed lives. He began to recruit participants to whom he gave prompts - ‘What’s Your Greatest Fear?’, ‘Respond to the Word ‘Man’’, ‘How Much Money Are You Carrying?’ Their responses required them to write short answers, draw pictures, take photographs. He in turn shot photo portraits of them. In this rare presentation, Miller will reveal a time capsule of a lost New York, of the way people looked and thought and acted fifty years ago. Voyeurism is part of its enduring appeal - ‘Draw a P***s and Vagina’, a series that involved 100 participants of all ages; ‘Unforgettable Moments’ (in collaboration with art therapist Bettie Ringma), a collection of over 30 drawings and tape-recorded stories by people who had experienced wars, robberies, life-threatening fires.
MARC H. MILLER is an artist, curator, writer, publisher and archivist. He is the founding director of the art ephemera specialists Gallery 98. More information about his work can be found at 98bowery.com
Non-NYU guests must RSVP for Bobst Library entry: [email protected]
