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Arts Lab
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<p>The Arts Lab was an alternative arts centre, founded in 1967 by <a href="/facts/Jim_Haynes/KppRHj39">Jim Haynes</a> at 182 <a href="/facts/Drury_Lane/cc64slSn">Drury Lane</a>, London. Although only active for two years, it was influential in inspiring many similar centres in the UK, continental Europe and Australia, including the expanded <a href="/facts/Institute_of_Contemporary_Arts/ActhrvIK">Institute of Contemporary Arts</a> (ICA) in London, the Milky Way/<a href="/facts/Melkweg/zxV5SJJ1">Melkweg</a> in <a href="/facts/Amsterdam/Xdd393bz">Amsterdam</a> (where Jack Henry Moore was one of the founders), the <a href="/facts/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Mitterrand/grGxYjvX">Entrepôt</a> in <a href="/facts/Paris/DrNHpwnA">Paris</a> and the <a href="/facts/Yellow_House_Artist_Collective/LI73GGug">Yellow House Artist Collective</a> founded by <a href="/facts/Martin_Sharp/msK11CDz">Martin Sharp</a> in <a href="/facts/Sydney/8TegRcwB">Sydney</a>. </p>