Article: Sampling the globe.(Pop art)

In a studio below my office at the Stadelschule in Frankfurt, a young German painter is scrupulously copying Japanese manga characters, while a cadre of film students in the next room watch a bootleg of a Matthew Barney movie. Pratchaya Phinthong, a Thai student who is importing nearly worthless coins from his country that work perfectly in the vending machines here (and, I presume, everywhere two-Euro pieces are accepted), recently disclosed his ingenious discovery at our open studio event. Now these two-Euro bahts are spreading across the continent like a virus. Phinthong's next move, to upload onto our server illegal copies of popular software bought in Bangkok and ...

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