Andrew Best sent this email through to the NUCA e list:

I was amazed to see that wikipedia had no history/knowledge of artist run initiatives in any of its entries on contemporary art or art galleries.

I’ve added references to it where i could see it fit, and created a few new topic categories to make it fit in better, including:

International Contemporary Art Scenes
Australian Contemporary Art
Artist Run Initiatives
Australian Artist Run Initiatives and separate listings for The Farm, First Draft, Loose Projects, MOP Projects, Downtown Art Space, etc - whatever quickly came to mind. There is also a section called “Art Galleries” that needs a good talking to.

anyway, lots of mistakes (and mainly omissions) - I’ve very quickly written the bare minimum to get the ball rolling. If you see merit in these being included, please create your own pages, histories, or make any additions or changes to what’s there. And forward this info to anyone you think should have a presence on it. I don’t really know the rules, i just hit ‘edit page’ at the top. If you want to create a new page you just write [[Name of New Section]] somewhere, save it, click on the link you’ve just made, and then create the new page. I don’t know how the editors control if things stay there, but I guess we’ll see. other people adding things may help. There should really also be a section on artist’s publications.
cheers all,
andrew

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