Wish You Were ... Here?
by Alix Browne

www.nytimes.com, New York, June 19, 2009.


VENICE is the supermodel of cities, more prodigiously photographed than Kate and Gisele combined.

But for the 53rd Venice Biennale, the artist Aleksandra Mir shows us the Queen of the Adriatic as we’ve never seen her — in one million free “Venezia” postcards, featuring photographs of waterscapes, not a Grand Canal in the bunch.