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"&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#8217;s been a big few days for artist-inspired internet memes. First,&lt;a href=\"http://www.artnet.com/artists/ai%20weiwei/\" target=\"_blank\"&gt; Ai Weiwei&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=\"http://news.artnet.com/in-brief/ai-weiwei-creates-new-leg-gun-internet-meme-39863?utm_source=rss&amp;amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;amp;utm_campaign=ai-weiwei-creates-new-leg-gun-internet-meme\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;used his leg as a makeshift gun&lt;/a&gt;, spawning\u00A0a bevy of copycats. Now, it seems &lt;a href=\"http://www.artnet.com/artists/jeff-koons/\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;Jeff Koons&lt;/a&gt;&amp;#8216;s already-infamous,\u00A0naked-but-for-one-well-placed-letter\u00A0&lt;a href=\"http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2014/07/jeff-koons-whitney-retropective\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Vanity Fair&lt;/em&gt; spread&lt;/a&gt;, shot by &lt;a href=\"http://www.artnet.com/artists/annie-leibovitz/\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;Annie Leibovitz&lt;/a&gt;,\u00A0has garnered some amusing responses from the internet community. According to the &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=\"http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/miranda/la-et-cam-naked-jeff-koons-spoofs-20140616-column.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;Los Angeles Times&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, the Naked Koons spoofs, as they&amp;#8217;ve been dubbed, are rife with &amp;#8220;heady references to the French avant-garde of the early 20th century and &lt;a href=\"http://www.artnet.com/artists/norman-rockwell/\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;Norman Rockwell&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;#8221;\u00A0It was really only a matter of time.&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;div id=\"attachment_41810\" style=\"width: 476px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"&gt;&lt;img class=\"size-full wp-image-41810\" src=\"https://news.artnet.com/app/news-upload/2014/06/la-naked-jeff-koons-spoofs-20140616-002.jpg\" alt=\"Perry Vasquez's Koons meme channels Francis Picabia. Photo via LA Times\" width=\"466\" height=\"828\" srcset=\"https://news.artnet.com/app/news-upload/2014/06/la-naked-jeff-koons-spoofs-20140616-002.jpg 466w, https://news.artnet.com/app/news-upload/2014/06/la-naked-jeff-koons-spoofs-20140616-002-169x300.jpg 169w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" /&gt;&lt;p class=\"wp-caption-text\"&gt;Perry Vasquez&amp;#8217;s Koons meme channels Francis Picabia.&lt;br /&gt;Photo via &lt;em&gt;LA Times&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;The meme seems to be in its larval stages currently\u2014a Google search for\u00A0&amp;#8220;naked &lt;a href=\"http://www.artnet.com/artists/jeff-koons/\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;Jeff Koons&lt;/a&gt;&amp;#8221; (which, no, is not something I ever imagined I would be Googling) returns mostly the very\u00A0NSFW images from Koons&amp;#8217;s &amp;#8220;Made in Heaven&amp;#8221; series, created with his ex-wife Cicciolina. But as &lt;a href=\"http://news.artnet.com/in-brief/hampm-peddling-jeff-koons-branded-clutches-39350\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;Koons fever heats up&lt;/a&gt; in anticipation of the impending Whitney Museum of American Art retrospective, we heartily encourage any\u00A0design-savvy readers to take part.&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;em&gt;Follow &lt;a href=\"http://facebook.com/artnetnews\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;artnet News&lt;/a&gt; on Facebook.&lt;/em&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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