Along the length of the Silk Road, resting places called caravanserai served as crucibles for the exchange of ideas, cultures, food and art. They sheltered travelers from all points of the compass who came together to share their stories.
On The Road
Mexico City. Inside the Interior Circuit.
Michael Maher, Mexico City © Isaac Masterman
Youth Bomb (BBC)
* Photographs by Peter Kayafas
Frida Kahlo - Spurned by Mexico’s Elite (BBC)
Francisco Goldman. An American Writer’s Mexico City (BBC)
Vietnam. In the Footsteps of Graham Greene (ABC)
Papua New Guinea. A Photographer’s Diary (BBC)
Madam President. Sri Lanka’s Iron Lady (ABC)
Stasiland. A Journey Through East Germany’s Dark Past with Anna Funder. (ABC)
Indonesia
They Took Our Land Away. The Struggle for West Papua (ABC)
Filming with cinematographer David Anderson in Jakarta.
Megawati Sukarnoputri. Her Father’s Daughter (ABC)
Budiman Sudjatmiko. An Activist Silenced (ABC)
David Anderson, Cinematographer. Outtakes, West Papua. (ABC)
A Dictator’s Final Days. The Fall of Soeharto (ABC)
Borneo Burns (ABC)
Reported by Michael Brissenden, Filmed by Louie Eroglu, Produced by Michael Maher
Cuba. Dance Like There’s No Tomorrow (ABC)
The Long Gray Line. Inside Westpoint (ABC)
Michelle Garnaut. Shanghai’s Pioneering Restaurateur (ABC)
Maximum City. Mumbai’s Encounter Cops (ABC)
Berlin Burlesque (ABC)
Toulouse-Lautrec’s Paris (BBC)
Chris Doyle. A Master of Asian Cinematography (ABC)
Women of Substance. New Zealand Closes the Gender Gap (ABC)
Lord Smart of Arezzo (ABC)
Made Wijaya (aka Michael White). A Gardener on the Island of the Gods (ABC)
A Turn in the South with the Photographer Peter Kayafas. (ABC)
Iraq. Photographs From the War America Wants to Forget (BBC)
From Berlin to Patagonia with the German Artist Frank Thiel (BBC)
South Africa. The Girl From Human Street (BBC)
South Africa during apartheid.
The Road to Reidsdale. NSW, Australia.
Landscape. Reidsdale Étude
Home Base
New York
Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith at the Chelsea Hotel © Norman Seeff, 1969
Blogging from Bohemia. Last Drinks at the Chelsea Hotel (ABC)
The New Harlem. A Portrait of Change
The Writers’ Room. New York’s Literary Incubator (BBC)
Peter Carey and Colum McCann
From Manhattan to Mars with Tom Sachs
Panther Baby. A Black Panther Looks Back (BBC)
Burst. An Aussie Beach Shack at MoMA (ABC)
My Secret Life as a Street Photographer (BBC)
Bliss. An Australian Opera Born in New York (ABC)
Darkness on the Edge of Town. Long Island’s Serial Killer (ABC)
The New Yorker’s David Remnick on Barack Obama (ABC interview)
Vintage. Dan’s Chelsea Guitars (ABC)
Dan Courtenay of Dan’s Chelsea Guitars.
Outtake. John Leventhal (aka Johnny Cash’s guitarist and son-in-law)
… another outtake
Gaza. The View From Brooklyn (ABC)
The High Line. An Elevated Stroll Through New York (BBC)
Back to the Bronx. A Decommissioned Prison Takes in Former Inmates (BBC)
Women on Bikes. New York’s Miss-Fires (BBC)
‘‘Sully.’’ A Screenwriter’s Craft (BBC)
Todd Komarnicki, screenwriter
A.O. Scott. Chief Film Critic for The New York Times (ABC interview)
A Secret Hiding in Plain Sight. New York's Forgotten Island (BBC)
Rock Star Coders. Why Programmers Need Agents (BBC)
Malcolm Gladwell and The Big Idea (ABC interview)
Postcard From Coney Island (ABC)
Marc Chagall’s Grandaughter Gives New York Flowers (BBC)
New York’s Armory Show at 100 (BBC)
Shelter Island. A Slave Plantation’s Journey (BBC)
American Masters
Jacob Lawrence. The Great Migration (BBC)
Maya Angelou. Learning to Love My Mother (BBC)
Danny Lyon. Outlaw Photographer (BBC)
Joseph Mitchell of The New Yorker (BBC)
The Martin Guitar. America’s Stradivarius (BBC)
Janna Levin. Astrophysics, Black Holes and Books (BBC)
Saul Williams. Forging Connections Between Art and Activism (BBC)
John James Audubon. The Birds of America (BBC)
Walker Evans. American Photographs (BBC)
Frank Stella. Whitney Retrospective (BBC)
Stanley Drucker. The Last Concert (ABC)
John Coltrane. Saving the House of A Love Supreme (BBC)
Still Waters in a Storm. Mastering Literature in the ‘Hood (BBC)
The Civil War’s Master Photographers (BBC)
Robert Hughes and The Shock of the New (panel discussion)
