Feb. 24, 2012 at 12:50pm with 5 notes
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Meet downtown’s most in-demand new eccentric: 24-year-old art star and Megazine editor Loren Kramar “For us, Megazine solves the problem of renting an exhibition space in New York City,” said [managing editor Maren] Miller, adding that art published in Megazine will be on display in a series of to-be-announced pop-up shows. “But it’s also a chance for us to use design to put the work we show in unusual contexts, or to make people see it differently.” Presently, the founders are testing and debating different revenue streams, including an online store and a “curated” ad section. Four original Fat Ebe drawings have been sold for $600 each, Kramar said, and the proceeds were split 50-50 between the artist, Ebecho Muslimova, and the founders. For upcoming features, a young artist named Joe Kay, Megazine’s “Man on the Street,” will interview people walking out of liquor stores, Kramar said. And in March, Megazine will launch its new erotica section with a one-page reinterpretation of Moby-Dick entitled “Maybe Dick.” First sentence: “Call me a shemale.” In the meantime, Kramar is preparing for his first live performance in two years. He plans to auction thirty “works of art” that he has collected, borrowed, or made, he said, including a glass slipper fabricated by a Venetian glassworker and an abstract painting made by a Thai elephant.

Meet downtown’s most in-demand new eccentric: 24-year-old art star and Megazine editor Loren Kramar

“For us, Megazine solves the problem of renting an exhibition space in New York City,” said [managing editor Maren] Miller, adding that art published in Megazine will be on display in a series of to-be-announced pop-up shows. “But it’s also a chance for us to use design to put the work we show in unusual contexts, or to make people see it differently.”

Presently, the founders are testing and debating different revenue streams, including an online store and a “curated” ad section. Four original Fat Ebe drawings have been sold for $600 each, Kramar said, and the proceeds were split 50-50 between the artist, Ebecho Muslimova, and the founders.

For upcoming features, a young artist named Joe Kay, Megazine’s “Man on the Street,” will interview people walking out of liquor stores, Kramar said. And in March, Megazine will launch its new erotica section with a one-page reinterpretation of Moby-Dick entitled “Maybe Dick.” First sentence: “Call me a shemale.”

In the meantime, Kramar is preparing for his first live performance in two years. He plans to auction thirty “works of art” that he has collected, borrowed, or made, he said, including a glass slipper fabricated by a Venetian glassworker and an abstract painting made by a Thai elephant.

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