Far and Away: Reporting from the Brink of Change

Silverstein, Mindy, 483, 485

Siopis, Penny, 149, 163

Siwedi, Linos, 158–59

Skotnes, Cecil, 152

Skotnes, Pippa, 150

Smith, Judith, 192

Snares islands, 386

Snowden, Edward, 102

Soares, Luiz Eduardo, 410, 412, 421

Sobchak, Anatoly, Foundation, 97

socialization, grooming in, 234

Solntsevskaya Bratva, 100

Solomon, Andrew:

adventurousness of, 484, 492

alone at sea, 488–92

Anglophilia of, 2–5, 10

depression of, 211, 261–62, 263, 439

dual citizenship of, 16

emotions of, 43–44, 483–84

first family trip abroad, 5

forebears of, 26, 435–36, 438–39, 441

scuba diving, 484–92

speaking in Romania, 437, 440–42

wedding of John Habich and, 34

Solomon, Blaine, 42, 489, 490

Solomon, George, 42–43, 485, 486, 489, 490, 492

Solomon, John Habich:

in China, 359

and discrimination against gays, 36

scuba diving, 484, 485, 489, 490, 491–92

in Solomon Islands, 294

wedding of Andrew Solomon and, 34

Solomon Islands, 293–303, 484

Circumcision Island, 302

coral atolls, 300

discrimination against gays in, 36

Hauta, 295–98

island-hopping, 298–301

Lake Tegano, 301–2

languages in, 294

Makira Island, 294–98

Malaita people in, 294

Marovo Lagoon, 300–301, 302

Polynesia life in, 301–2

provincial capital relocated, 302–3

rainforest in, 295

Uepi, 301

update, 302–3

Song dynasty, 181, 185, 187, 193, 199, 201, 203, 379

Song Shuangsong, 104–5, 109, 113–14, 130, 134

Songzhuang, China, 136, 138–39

Sotheby’s (auction house):

commercialism of, 54–55

first sale of Soviet art by, 45, 49–56

Soviet tour sponsored by, 49, 51, 52

South Africa, 141–76

absurd theater of symbolic respect, 163–64

affirmative action in, 151, 161–62

apartheid art centers in, 151–52, 154

apartheid categories in, 156

art appreciation, no tradition of, 161

art competitions in, 159

art dialogue in, 155–56

art schools in, 152–53

basket weaving in, 160–61

black people invisible in, 142–43, 145–46, 160, 161, 175

black-white mutual influence in, 173–75

censorship in, 175–76

colored (mixed race) people in, 156–57

commercial galleries in, 158–59, 172, 175

conflicting priorities in, 143–49, 153–54, 155, 175–76

cultural boycott (1980s) in, 148–49

elections in, 455

end of apartheid in, 29, 141, 148, 162

in the hinterlands, 161, 164–73

Hottentots, 145

National Arts Initiative (NAI), 143, 162–64

“necklacing” in, 409

politics in, 162–64, 174

public stoning ordered in, 175

sangomas (witch doctors), 153, 166, 173

shebeens in, 163

townships in, 151–57

transitional art in, 153

travel in, 19–20

Tributaries exhibition in, 171

update, 175–76

and Venice Biennale, 159–60, 176

white art collectors in, 157–58

white-directed programs for blacks in, 160–62

white liberal artists in, 148–51

Xhosa beadwork, 144–45

South Seas fantasies, 293

Soviet art:

Actions (happenings), 46–49, 52, 55, 57

avant-garde, 46–51, 53, 55, 56–58

contemporary, 49–58

hidden meanings in, 12, 54, 55, 56, 103, 272

influence of, 108

The Irony Tower (Solomon), 14–15, 45

market for, 45–58

self-reference in, 56

Sotheby’s first sale of, 45, 49–56

update, 56–58

Western discovery of, 49–50, 135

Soviet Union, see USSR

Soweto, South Africa, travel in, 19–20

Spain, money laundering in, 100

Speedy Bag Factory, Johannesburg, 145–47, 149

spirt (grain alcohol), 17

Spratt, Captain, 215

Sri Lanka, 459

Stalin, Joseph, 14, 17, 28, 54, 60, 118, 178, 230, 246

Stankevich, Sergei B., 90, 92–95, 97

Stars group, China, 108, 109, 110, 123

Stepanova, Varvara, 50

Stevens, Christopher, 356

Stewart, Lucas, 447, 463

storytelling, 24, 30–33, 258, 261

Stravinsky, Igor, 423

Styazhkin, Denis, 58

Suara Putra (Balinese man), 402

Suarayasa (Balinese teenager), 400, 402

Sudarma (Balinese man), 403

Sugimoto, Hiroshi, 289

Suharto, 449

Sukesti, Cening, 402, 403–4

Su Shi:

Ode to the Red Cliff, 200

Poems Written at Hangzhou on the Cold-Food Festival, 200–201

Suu Kyi, see Aung San Suu Kyi

Suzhou gardens, 378, 379

Suzman, Helen, 162

Sviblova, Olga, 65, 86, 97

Swehli, Ahmed, 337, 344

Syria, 319, 336, 346

atrocities against homosexuals in, 34

chaos in, 29

refugees from, 39

Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 206, 208, 210

Taiwan, 181–204

American Institute in, 195, 207

autonomous art for, 198–99

calligraphy in, 199–203

Chinese art moved to (1949), 183, 185, 188, 198

Chinese heritage in, 209

contemporary art scene in, 205–10

economy of, 198

elections in, 455

ethnic tensions in, 197–98

identity crisis of, 183, 197, 198, 204, 206, 207–9

and mainland China, 184, 185, 195, 196–98, 205, 206

massacres (February 28, 1948), 208

as model for democracy, 185

nationalism in, 208

nativist Taiwanese styles, 205

New Paradise (artist-run space) in, 208

Palace Museum, see National Palace Museum

politics in, 191–94, 195, 202, 205, 206–7, 208–9, 210

and protectionism, 16, 184

protests of Met exhibit, 182, 183, 190–97, 202

public protests continuing in, 203–4

and reunification, 202–4, 206

self-definition in, 206

Sunflower Movement in, 204

US relations with, 185, 196, 197

White Shirt Army, 203

Tales of a Korean Grandmother (Carpenter), 4

Taliban, 28, 38, 270–75, 278, 279–80, 347, 460, 461

Tambovskaya Prestupnaya Grupirovka, 100

Tan, Fiona, 291