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John Canaday
"ART" THE NEW YORK TIMES
6 January 1968
Section 1, p. 25

Richard Artschwager (Castelli, 4 East 77th Street): This gallery has so frequently offered work that seems puerile but has ended by making the grade in the international circus, that a bit of caution might seem advisable in saying that Mr. Artschwager doesn't stand a chance. So let us say that he doesn't stand a chance with me, no matter if he winds up in Venice. His semi-minimal sculpture is executed in, I take it, a kind of plastic, and is patterned in an enlarged version of the flowing patterns familiar in the marbleized papers of 19th century bookbindings. If there is anything here that is pointful, ornamental, original, inventive, or interesting in any way, it escaped me in spite of a current mood of good will inspired, irrationally, by the advent of the New Year. However, he seems to have more to offer than Richard Tuttle.

N Y. TIMES  J. CANADAY