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People get upset when Baghdad, the Cradle of Civilization is burning, or when the Buddhas in Afghanistan are falling. These are real concerns.

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Aleksandra Mir
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: January 1
Artist
Drawer
Installation Artist
Painter
Printmaker
Visual Artist
Lüben
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Civilization
Baghdad
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Cradle
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People
Afghanistan
Upset
Falling
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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 project could possibly be realized at a very late part of my career. Right now, I don't have the authority, the budget, the credibility.
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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 cultural anthropology in the graduate school there.
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The moment right now, it's a tragically regressive time we live in, you know. We just grounded the Concorde. Where's the future? We've lost the future.
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I'm so extremely well prepared for negative response, I've taken precautions.
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