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By Thomas Feldhacker THE INDEPENDENT VOICE OF THE VISUAL ARTS Volume 31 No. 2 November/December 2016 £4 UK/ $6.00 US/ $7.75 Canada/ C=6.50 Europe Established 1973 IN THIS ISSUE Charles Thomson SPEAKEASY by FEIER LAI ARTICLES The Big Picture The Big CHARLES THOMSON re-examines art’s role in our culture Two Pioneer Institutions Picture of Modern Art at 100 TOM MULLANEY interviews the Arts Club of Chicago and the Renaissance Society REVIEWS U.S. Roger Brown and Andy Warhol at Kavi Gupta Camille Iemmolo and Jon Langford at Thomas Masters REVIEWS EUROPE El Bosco at Museo del Prado, Madrid Today it requires “CAPITAL—DEBT, TERRITORY, considerably more UTOPIA” at the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin ability, not to BOOK REVIEWS mention courage, to “Rene Romero Schuler: build something up. Paintings and Sculpture” “A Northern School Revisited” …The real enemy “Salvador Dali & Andy is the terminology Warhol: Encounters in New which we accept York and Beyond” SCOUTING THE BLOGS unthinkingly… The Money Grab NEW ART EXAMINER CONTENTS 5 LETTERS 6 SPEAKEASY FEIER LAI discusses Bureaucracy in the Art World 7 THE BIG PICTURE CHARLES THOMAS, co-founder of the Stuckist movement, discourses on art history and its application in today’s world 14 A SMALL PICTURE OF THE BIG PICTURE JASMINE SURREAL explains the symbolism of her title illustration 15 TWO PIONEER INSTITUTIONS OF MODERN ART AT 100 TOM MULLANEY interviews Janine Mileaf of the Arts Club of Chicago and Solveig Ovstebo of the Renaissance Society as the two organizations celebrate their 100th birthday 23 Johannesburg—A City in the Making DANIEL NANAVATI explores the use of art in the revitalization of the city 24 Team Art and Allen Vandever Host a Talk with Derek Guthrie Chicago’s art community turns out to hear the founding publisher of the NAE 26 Some Thoughts on Expo Chicago THOMAS FELDHACKER reflects on the outcome of Expo Chicago 27 New Lines in Chelsea? MICHEL SÉGARD notices a mini trend in Chelsea gallery exhibitions (continued on page 2) 1 NEW ART EXAMINER CONTENTS (continued from page 1) 28 Chicago Reviews 28 “Politics, Rhetoric, Pop” Roger Brown and Andy Warhol at Kavi Gupta Gallery by EVAN CARTER 30 A Room of Surreal Mindscapes Camille Iemmolo and Jon Langford at Thomas Masters Gallery, by TOM MULLANEY 31 Europe Reviews 31 “Heaven and Hell” El Bosco (Heironymous Bosch) exhibition at Museo del Prado, Madrid, by SUSANA GÓMEZ LAIN 32 “CAPITAL—DEBT, TERRITORY, UTOPIA” exhibition at the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, by RICHARD SHARLAND 34 Book Reviews 34 “Rene Romero Schuler: Paintings and Sculpture” (2016) by RICHARD SIEGESMUND 35 “A Northern School Revisited” (2015) by DEREK GUTHRIE 36 Soul Bros in Art review of “Salvador Dali & Andy Warhol: Encounters in New York and Beyond” (2015) by TOM MULLANEY 37 SCOUTING THE BLOGS The Money Grab THOMAS FELDHACKER looks at the international art market To have any worth, art, like agriculture, needs to be part of the worldwide movement to discern and rediscover what has been injudiciously trashed in the past and to integrate it with what is of value in the present—just as the Renaissance did with its re-evaluation of Greek culture. 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