Never shy to insert his eccentric alter ego into art history as a form of playful provocation, Canadian artist Jeremy Bailey tasked the generative AI system Midjourney to put his ‘Famous New Media Artist’ persona into a David Hockney pool painting (“it keeps twisting my legs up!”) and to combine it with one of Jeff Koons’ balloon dogs (image). Credit where credit is due: Balloon Bailey is the blue, bespectacled kitsch we didn’t know we needed.