Far and Away: Reporting from the Brink of Change

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Index

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Absolutely Fabulous (TV), 214

abstract expressionism, 152

Abu Ghraib, 350

ACCEPT (Romanian gay-rights organization), 437, 440

Acer America, 184, 195, 202

Aegis Trust, 305

Aeschylus, 214

Afghanistan:

after the Taliban, 269–85

artistic community in, 270–72, 273–74, 276, 284–85

author’s friends in, 38–39

Contemporary Art Prize in, 284

culture destroyed in, 29, 271–72

dinner party in, 280–83

ethnic groups in, 278–79, 461

filmmakers in, 275–77

music in, 277–80

poets in, 274–75

rebuilding, 272–73

Soviet invasion of, 6, 11, 272, 275, 460

Taliban in, 28, 38, 270–75, 278, 279–80, 460, 461

television in, 272–73, 278

update, 283–84

women in, 27–28, 271, 276, 277, 284

Africa:

antisodomy laws in, 35

gay people in, 431

“native art” in, 146

tourism in, 23, 227

transitional societies in, 249

see alsospecific nations

African National Congress (ANC), 142, 148, 151, 157, 162–64, 175

Agili, Hasan, 35, 39, 335, 356

Ahmida, Ali Abdullatif, 326, 345

Ainslie, Bill, 152

Ai Weiwei, 103, 129, 137, 138, 139–40

Akhlaqi, Ali, 284

Alborough, Alan, 146

Alexander, Jane, 151

Alexander the Great, 215, 217, 271

Alexandrova, Avdotja, 98

Alexeev, Nikita, 13

Al-Fateh, 340

Al Jazeera, 341

Alkikli, Omar, 335

al-Qaeda, 272, 325, 460

Al Shams (The Sun), Libya, 327, 339

Alston, Philip, 409

Alvarez, A., 250

Amach, Sanga, 284

Amazon rainforest, 425

Amin, Idi, 335

Amnesty International, 356, 426, 427

Amos, Howard, 177

Ando, Tadao, 288, 289, 290, 291

André, Marcus, 414–15

Antarctica, 385–96

ban on polar mining in, 396

blue snow of, 394

Chinese research stations on, 396

icebergs of, 393–94

krill harvesting at, 396

new fungi in, 396

oil and mineral resources of, 396

pack ice of, 388–95

penguins of, 396

Shackleton Centennial Expedition to, 385

update, 395–96

vulnerability of, 385

Antarctic Circle, crossing of, 388

Antarctic Treaty, 396

Anufriev, Sergey, 47, 48

Arab Spring, 448, 449

Arakan (Rakhine) State, 459, 461–63

author’s visit to, 464–68

Araujo, Cleber, 426

Argumenty i Fakty, 72

Aris, Michael, 456

armaments, development of, 41

Arman (Hope), 274

art:

for art’s sake, 152

auction world of, 53

commercial expectations of, 13, 54–55, 56, 112

conceptual, 144, 206

and controversy, 176, 181, 186

and craft, 144–45, 146, 165, 207, 284

cultural vocabulary of, 186

as entertainment, 13, 46–47

figurative painting, 111

formalism, 135

interpretation of, 185–86

minimalism, 135

modernism, 135

painted miniatures, 273

performance art, 47, 76–77, 137, 210, 284

and politics, 15, 140, 162–64, 184–85, 191, 210

power to change the world, 13, 152

and protectionism, 184, 196

purposes of, 14, 15, 54, 56

purposes of museums, 189

radical form in, 109

realist, 108, 125

trompe l’oeil, 380

and truth, 56, 59

visual, 148

Asefi, Yousof, 270, 273–74

Asian democracies, US support of, 185

Atatürk, Kemal, 337

Athens, Olympics in, 416

Attiga, Giumma, 335

Augustine of Hippo, 16

Aung Kyaw Naing, 479

Aung Min, 467

Aung San, 451, 455, 475

Aung San Suu Kyi, 37, 443–44, 446, 447, 454–58, 476, 479

background of, 455–56

and elections, 455, 456–58, 462, 475, 482

and ethnic groups, 461, 462

The Voice of Hope, 453

Australia, 483–92

Aye Ko, 446

Aye Lwin, 463, 468

Azerbaijan, organized crime in, 87–88

Baggio, Rodrigo, 415–16

Bahkstein, Josif, 64, 67

Bailey, Beezy, 147, 166, 169

Balanchine, George, 300

Baldwin, James, Giovanni’s Room, 81

Bali, clan system in, 398

Baloyi, Vincent, 155

Bangladesh, 458, 465, 481

Bangweulu Swamps, Zambia, 222–24

Bank for International Settlements, 347

Barcelona, Olympics in, 416

Barker, Wayne, 147

Bashir, Omar al-, 339

Bastos Marques, Maria Silvia, 416, 418

Bastrykin, Alexander, 100

Baywatch (TV), 17

BBC, 130, 177

Bebe Scott (nanny), 3–4

Begalov, Yuri, 84–85, 97

Beijing:

ear massage in, 369

food in, 367–69

Forbidden City in, 187, 188, 373–76, 378, 383

Garden of the Palace of Established Happiness, 383

Qianlong Garden in, 373–84

Beijing Independent Film Festival, 136

Beltrame, José Mariano, 410–14

Benesse Art Site, 288–91

Benesse Island, Japan, 287–91

Art House Projects, 290

Chichu Museum, 291

Benghazi, Libya, 345, 352–53, 356

Bengkala, Bali:

alcohol abuse in, 402

deafness in, 397–405

government of, 398

Ben-Gurion, David, 468

Berlusconi, Silvio, 348

Bermuda, map of, 49

Bernhardt, Sarah, 423

Bester, Willie, 156–58

Bi Mon Te Nay, 479

bin Laden, Osama, 325, 347

Birch, James, 126

Birman, Yevgeny, 73–74, 78

Bisgaard, Poul, 251–52

Bite of China, A (TV), 370

Black, Robert, QC, 346

Blair, Gavin, 219–27