Various Small Fires

2012 | Best New Performance Art Space

Although it just launched in January, Venice-based Various Small Fires has already made a big splash in the local art community. In March, a controversial live painting and auction event by New York artists Debo Eilers and Kerstin Brätsch had art followers buzzing when a well-known collector's attempt to buy a large quantity of works, ostensibly for the purpose of flipping, was refused as part of the performance. Since then, founding director Esther Kim Varet has given New York art... More »