The Stonehenge proposal got a lot of interesting criticism. One of the best - or worst - said something like, "Go home to Las Vegas." I think this pr…

- Aleksandra Mir

I find myself doing fieldwork physically, in the tradition of anthropology. I literally go to the opposite end of the world, to the most exotic faraw…

- Aleksandra Mir

Seeing your work go into storage in an art museum is obviously a tragedy of any cultural product - which doesn't mean I am anti-institutional.

- Aleksandra Mir

In 1989 I came to New York to go to the School of Visual Arts. Then, after two years, I switched over to the New School for Social Research and did c…

- Aleksandra Mir

I've gotten all kinds of reactions and it's been used in so many different ways.

- Aleksandra Mir

Stonehenge had an aura but it was also just stone. Then in the sixties, it became a great hedonistic, hippie, druid, rock-n-roll party site. There ar…

- Aleksandra Mir

"Naming Tokyo" kicked off at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris in June, and it's going to travel to various art institutions for years to come. Every time…

- Aleksandra Mir

Of course I can have a simple reaction of sympathy and sorrow to destruction. But you also know that you can't have new things if you don't occasiona…

- Aleksandra Mir

Really the moment I decided I wanted to do art seriously, I left art school. I wanted to be with people who were interested in the same things I was:…

- Aleksandra Mir