22 NOVEMBER 1957, Page 8

THERE AltE. FEW richer mines of interest than the catalogues

of art exhibitions. My latest find is attached to an exhibition at the AIA Gallery, called Pictures Without Paint. The learned com- mentator refers to the work of Arp 'who as early as 1916 tore paper into scraps and allowed them to fall into the positions allotted by the "laws of chance."' Odd—I thought paper-chases were older than