oil in, 321, 333, 341–43, 348
possibility of democracy in, 327, 336–37, 350
poverty in, 333
prisons in, 334–35
social life in, 350–51, 355
student visas to people from, 39
surveillance in, 336
television in, 341
and terrorist groups, 346–47, 348, 354
travel to, 327–29
tribal structure in, 327, 337, 343, 355
update, 356–57
US and UN sanctions against, 326, 341, 346, 348
US relations with, 345–50, 354
women in, 334, 351
Libyan Islamic Brotherhood, 357
Libyan Publishers’ League, 322
Libyan Writers’ League, 335
Lichtenstein, Roy, 109
Lithuania, Jewish State Museum in, 24, 500
Lithur, Nana Oye, 430
Litichevsky, Zhora, 55
Litvinenko, Alexander, 100
Liu Anping, 121–22
Liulin Wei, 203
Liu Shenli, 396
Liu Wei, 111
Li Wenzi, 136
Li Xianting, see Lao Li
Locke, John, 323
Lockerbie air crash, 322, 326, 346, 347, 348
Long, Richard, 289
Longtime Companion (film), 81
Lord of the Flies (film), 473
Louis XIV, king of France, 376
Louvre Museum, Paris, 194, 375
Lucy (Xhosa bead worker), 144–45
Lugar, Richard, 349
Lula da Silva, Luiz Inácio, 410, 416, 421
Lu Maw, 446
Lumpen modeling agency, 98
Luna, Cíntia, 421
Lusaka, Zambia, 225
Lu Shengzhong, 131
Luzhkov, Yuri, 97
Lycia, Turkey, 213–14
Lynge, Sara, 257
Mabasa, Noria, 166–67
Ma Ba Tha (Burmese Buddhist political group), 480–81
Mabulu, Ayanda, 176
Macartney-Snape, Sue, 485, 486, 489, 492
Mack, David, 348, 349
Macquarie Island, 387–88
Ma Desheng, 108
Maelaua, Wilson, 294
Magadlela, Fikile, 159
Maghur, Azza, 349–50
Magkoeva, Isabelle, 102
Mahama, John Dramani, 429–33
My First Coup d’État, 429
Mahmoudi, Baghdadi al-, 354
Makarevich, Andrei, 98
Makarov, Andrey, 101
Makoba, Trevor, 159–60
Malange, Nise, 164
Malaurie, Jean, 255–56
Ma Liuming, 137
Mamyshev-Monroe, Vladik, 74, 97
Manaka, Matsemela, 158
Manchu Qing dynasty, 376, 379, 381
Manchuria, Japanese invasion of (1931), 188
Mandela, Nelson, 142, 152, 158
Manjusri (bodhisattva), 381
Mansour, Abdul, 271, 272
Mao Zedong:
as art subject, 112, 122, 123
and Chinese art, 103, 108, 109, 272
and Cultural Revolution, 119–24, 162
death of, 120–21
and “international friends,” 109
legacy of, 35
and Revolutionary Model Operas, 122
Mapplethorpe, Robert, 192
Maqhubela, Louis, 148
Marie Antoinette, queen of France, 118, 384
Marleni (ballerina), 19
Marrakech, Morocco, 8
Marsaja, I Gede, 398, 401
Marshall Plan, 42, 269, 411
Martin, Marilyn, 144–45, 149
Masango, Aubrey, 176
Masekela, Barbara, 142, 146, 174–75
Mashinee, Abdul Rashin, 280
Matamura, Marie Rose, 311–12
Ma Thanegi, 444, 448, 453, 455, 469, 471, 475, 476–77
Nor Iron Bars a Cage, 476
Ma Thida, 27, 444–45, 458, 464, 471, 472, 480
Mathieson, Dave, 479
Matisse, Henri, 214
Matlock, Jack F., 51
Matshoba, Mtutuzeli, 162
Mattawa, Khaled, 323
Mattos, Sergio, 423
Maung Tin Thit, 446, 475–76
Mautloa, Pat, 145
Mayakovsky, Vladimir, 78
Mazin, Viktor, 78
McCarthyism, 22
McNamara, Robert S., 22–23
Medeiros, Luciana, 423
Medical Hermeneutics movement, 47
Mediterranean Sea, 211
Meherzad, Hafiz, 273
Meishugan (National Art Gallery), Beijing, 108
China/Avant-Garde exhibit, 109
Country Life Plan exhibit, 104–5
Gilbert & George show in, 126–27
Melville, Herman, Moby-Dick, 293–94, 302
Merkel, Angela, 41
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 78
Metropolitan Museum, New York:
Chinese collection in, 184, 203
conservation of Asian art in, 193
and cultural exchange, 192, 203
exhibition of work from Taipei, 181, 182–83, 184, 185, 189–91, 193–96, 199–203
King Tut exhibit (1978), 184–85
Mexico, public protests in, 184
Michelangelo, 109
Michener, James, 300
Miller, George Bures, 291
Mills, John Atta, 430, 432
Ming dynasty, 375, 379, 382
Minghella, Anthony, 361
Mironenko, Serioja, 64, 65, 66
Mironenko, Vladimir, 61, 64
Misiano, Viktor, 55
Mitchell, Derek, 448, 454, 455, 457, 459, 461, 468
Mitrofanov, Georgi, 100
Miyajima, Tatsuo, 290
Moe Satt, 446–47
Mokamel, Kabir, 284
Moletsi, Andrew (pseud.), 147
Moloudzadeh, Makwan, 35
Molsami (Balinese woman), 403
Momba, Willie, 222, 224, 225
Mona Lisa (Leonardo), 194
Monastyrsky, Andrei, 47
Monet, Claude, Water Lilies, 291
Mongolia, 237–47
airag (fermented horse milk) in, 239, 240, 243
Bayanzag Flaming Cliffs in, 243
camels in, 243
description of, 238
elections in, 455
gay identity in, 33–34
gers (tent-like structures) in, 238–39, 243–44
irony in, 246
and Manchus, 381
monasteries in, 246
Naadam celebration in, 239–41
nomadism in, 242–44, 247
ortz (tepee) in, 245
Övörkhangai Province, 241, 242
reindeer people in, 245–46
roads in, 241
shamans in, 245
as symbol of the remote, 237
train ride to, 237–38
yaks in, 241–42
Monitor Group, 344
Moriconi, Italo, 409, 414, 423
Morocco, author’s visit to, 7–8, 9
Morrison, Toni, 27
Moscow:
artists in, 12, 13–15, 48–49, 54–58, 59, 60, 63, 69, 74–75, 85–86
billionaires in, 98
change in, 13, 15, 30, 56–58
First Gagarin party in, 73–74, 80
life in, 30
“paper architects” in, 27
Sotheby’s first sale of Soviet art in, 45, 49–56
VDNKh, 73, 101
Moscow Biennale, 57
Moscow Exchange, 84
Moscow Museum of Modern Art, 56
Moth, The, 261, 483
“mountain wanderer syndrome,” 255
Mount Wutai, 381
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 22
Mthembu, Jackson, 175
Muhammad (prophet), Danish cartoons of, 352
Muhammad, Abdul Akbar, 340
Mukamakuza, Alphonsine, 315–17
Mukam
ana, Espérance, 308
Mukamana, Marianne, 312–14
Mukansanga, Beatrice, 311
Mukasarasi, Godeliève, 308
Mukhuba, Nelson, 172–73
Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, 56
Muniz, Vic, 408, 415, 424
Munyai, Albert Mbudzeni, 169–70
Murdoch, Rupert, 361
Murray, Brett, 175–76
Muslim Brotherhood, 351–52
Muslims:
in Myanmar, 458–64, 468, 481
polygamy among, 460
see also Islam
Myanmar, 443–82
absence of basic services in, 447–48, 451–52, 461, 469
artists in, 446–47, 474–75
blogging in, 471–72
Buddhist majority in, 444, 449, 458–59, 462, 464, 466–68, 481
censorship in, 443, 451, 461, 470–73, 479–80, 481
and China, 449, 458, 476
constitution of, 452, 456, 457–58, 482
Cyclone Nargis in, 457–58
economy of, 454, 469
education in, 451, 452–53
88 Generation in, 452
elections in, 443, 454–55, 456–58, 480–82
ethnic groups in, 451, 453, 458–64, 465, 466–70, 479, 481
expatriates from, 454, 471–72
Golden Rock shrine in, 465–66
government move to Naypyidaw, 450, 453–54
hope in, 443, 444, 480
idea of freedom in, 27
independence of, 444, 451, 455, 468, 469
individual states in, 469–70
Inle Lake guesthouse in, 477–79
international sanctions in, 443, 448–49
Inthar Heritage House in, 478
Kyaiktiyo Pagoda in, 466
laws in, 457, 458, 463, 480
military junta in, 445–46, 448, 449, 451–52, 453, 455, 464, 465, 469, 472, 477, 481, 482
national identity in, 459, 463, 470
Plain of Temples (Bagan), 466–67
political prisoners in, 443–45, 457, 469, 472–73, 474, 476–77, 481
political reforms in, 445, 447, 448–49, 472
possible democracy in, 450, 451, 452, 455, 480, 482
poverty in, 449, 450, 463–64, 471
Rohingya people in, 458–62, 464, 468, 480–81
Saffron Revolution (2007) in, 444, 447, 449, 452, 462, 472
Shwedagon Pagoda in, 449–50
history of, 459, 480
structures demolished in, 450
student uprisings (1988) in, 444, 456, 465, 470, 473, 475, 476
threat of guerrilla warfare in, 468–69
tourism in, 450, 478–79
update, 480–82
My Life as a Red Guard (documentary film), 124
Naidoo, Riason, 175
Naito, Rei, 291
Namibia, national museum in, 144
NASCO (National Supply Corporation), 338, 342
National Cancer Institute, 343
National Endowment of the Arts (NEA), 162
National Gallery, Kabul, 270
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Circa 1492 exhibition, 184
National Gallery of South Africa, 143–45, 146, 175
National Palace Museum, Taipei, 187–96, 198–99, 202–3, 209
artworks reattributed by, 189
balance needed against, 198
Imperial Collection in, 187–89, 192, 203
and Met exhibit, 182–83, 185, 189–91, 193, 195, 196
preview exhibition of, 189–90
renovations in, 203
restricted list of, 189, 190–91, 194–95
seventieth anniversary of, 185–86
Nation of Islam, 340
Nauman, Bruce, 100 Live and Die, 289
Navalny, Alexei, 102
Nay Phone Latt, 447, 452–53, 461, 471–72, 473, 480
Nazism, 230, 306
Ndayambaje, Jean Damascène, 309
Ndou brothers (Goldwin and Owen), 167–68
Sport for a Gentleman, 168
Nemtsov, Boris, 102
New Analysts Group, Beijing, 113
New Europe College, Bucharest, 440–41
Ne Win, 451
New Republic, 17
New Wave, 109
New Yorker, 321, 435
New York Times, 205, 269, 429
New York Times Magazine, 59, 71, 103, 139, 141, 181
Ngabonziza, Jean-de-Dieu, 316
Ngarda (Balinese man), 403
Ngcukana, Fitzroy, 164
Nhlengethwa, Sam, 145–46, 156
Niazi, Mohammed Yasin, 274
Nicolaisen, Flemming, 23
Nigeria, gay people stoned to death in, 35
Night Wolves (biker gang), 99
Ni Haifeng, 106, 117, 121, 124, 129
Nikolayev, Leonid, 57
Nimrod, 385–96
Nishizawa, Ryue, 291
Niyonsenga, Marcelline, 314–15
Nkosi, Charles, 152, 155
Nkotsi, Tony, 173
Noize MC, 98
Noonday Demon, The: An Atlas of Depression (Solomon), 32, 36, 211, 229, 249, 261, 435, 436–37
Norman, Jessye, 361
North, Oliver (“Ollie”), 177
Northern Song dynasty, 378
Norway, menu in, 21
Novikov, Timur, 78, 81, 97
Novogratz, Jacqueline, 319–20
nowhere to go, 1–2, 16, 24, 481
always someplace to go, 37
escape fantasies, 3, 4, 33
refugees, 25, 39–42, 233–35
Ntobe, Joyce (pseud.), 147
Ntshangase, Alson, The AIDS Doctors, 153
Nyirahabimana, Alphonsine, 310
Offenbacher, Mrs., 4
Olsen, Astrid, 258
Olshvang, Anton, 60
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 188
Oprah (TV), 341
Orpheus Island, 485–86
Ostrakovsky, Ivan, 99–100
Ouyang Jianghe, 140
Ovcharenko, Vladimir, 58
Ovchinnikova, Masha, 82–83
OvidiuRo (NGO), 436, 440
Pachugin, Yaroslav, 83
Paes, Eduardo, 416
Pahlavi, Shah Mohammad Reza, 337
Pakistan:
intelligence service (ISI), 271
and Muslim guerrillas, 460
nuclear weapons of, 347
women wearing hijab in, 26
Palestine, 352
Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC), 164
Pan Am Flight 103 (Lockerbie bombing), 322, 326, 346, 347, 348
Pan Dehai, 106
paper, origins of, 128
paranoia, 255
Paris:
Garnier (theatre) in, 422
Sots Art: Political Art from Russia exhibit, 58
Paris terrorist attacks (November 2015), 39
Parks, Rosa, 340
Pascoe, Lynn, 207
Pater, Walter, 29
Patricof, Alan, 329
Pavlov, MC, 75, 79–80, 97
Payne, Malcolm, 144, 145, 146, 150, 159
peace, 41
Pearl, Daniel, 38
Pearsall, Cornelia, 22
Peilman, Kirsten, 252
Pe Myint, 449
PEN:
and censorship, 36–37
Myanmar office of, 443
PEN American Center, author as president of, 36–37, 443
Penkin, Sergei, 81
Perm, Russia, Welcome to Sochi exhibit in, 57
Peterson, Peter G., 329
Petlyura, 75–77, 97
Pew Research Trust, 427
Phaly Nuon, 229, 231–35
death of, 235
photography, invention of, 185
phytoplankton, 396
Picasso, Pablo, 185
Pierneef, Henk, 144
Pinda (Balinese man), 401
Pindu, Nym, 403
Plutser-Sarno, Alex, 57
“polar hysteria,” 2
55
Polo, Marco, 366
Pol Pot, 230, 231
Popov, Sergey, 53
Powell, Ivor, 164, 173
Prague, cultural dissonance in, 22
Prigov, Dima, 38
Professor Khromov, 386–87, 390
propaganda, 37
Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, 55
Pussy Riot (band), 57, 100
Putin, Vladimir, 15, 57–58, 71, 97, 99–100, 102, 437
Pu Yi (the last emperor), 188, 376
Qaddafi, Muammar, 7, 29, 321–23, 326–27, 329, 332–34, 335, 349, 351–52, 354
bedouin roots of, 323, 341, 343
and Circle of Fire, 354–56
and corruption, 343
death of, 356, 449
on elections, 336–37
Green Book, 322, 330, 332–33
hegemony of, 345
Jamahiriya system of, 332–33, 334, 337, 342
legacy of, 357
and Nation of Islam, 340
possibility of meeting with, 339–41
Third Universal Theory of, 332
and unrest, 345–48, 352–53
Qaddafi, Saif al-Islam, 7, 323–26, 327, 329, 334, 337, 349, 354
imprisonment of, 357
Qaddafi Foundation of, 323, 335
and unrest, 352–53
Qianlong Emperor, 374–84
death of, 377
idealism of, 384
meditation of, 382
poems written by, 377, 382
reign of, 377
Qianlong Garden of Retirement, China, 373–84
design of, 378–80, 382
Juanqinzhai in, 373, 374, 376, 377, 379–84
restoration of, 383–84
Qing dynasty, 128, 187, 203, 375–77
Qudratullah (chef), 281–82
Radio Liberty, 61
Rados, Antonia, 281
Rafferty, Emily K., 192, 196
Rahim, Said Makhtoum, 271, 272
Rakhine (Arakan) State, 459, 461–63
author’s visit to, 464–68
Ramabulana, Freddy, 168–69
Reagan administration, 325, 345
Reed, Lou, 361
refugee camps, 25, 233–35, 307, 461–62, 473, 481
refugees, 39–42
and cultural exclusion, 39
and immigration, 25
Renaissance, 185, 380
Resmini, Ni Md, 401
Rezayee, Shaima, 284
Rezun-Zvezdochetova, Larisa, 13, 60, 65, 66–68
Richards, Colin, 163
Rilke, Rainer Maria, 44
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 407–28
aesthetics of sensuality in, 423
beach culture in, 423
Carioca culture of, 409, 414–15, 417, 422
Carnival in, 408–9
Christ the Redeemer statue in, 417
deindustrialization, 409
favelas in, 408–15, 417–22, 423, 425–28
Museu de Favela in, 414
nightlife in, 423–24
Olympic Games in, 407, 410, 416–17, 418, 419, 422, 426, 427
pacification program in, 415–17, 420, 421, 426–28
police and crime in, 409–13, 418, 421, 422, 425–27
rejuvenation of historic sites in, 422–25
samba in, 408, 409, 420, 424
skin color in, 419–20
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