Super Bowl? More like superbly weird ad! Meta Ray-Ban's two-part commercial for 2025’s big game follows the Chrises (Hemsworth & Pratt) as they fumble through Kris’s (Jenner) private gallery. The AI glasses promise to give the wearer an art history education, but the gallery scene turns out to be little more than a backdrop for pratfalls (Pratt falls? Huh? Is that anything?) and an opportunity for three people with the same name to take selfies.
That’s why we’re picking up where Silicon Valley could never. We take a look at Urs Fischer's waxy/eggy/gooey meditations on impermanence and Carmen Herrera's iconic hard-edge paintings. Join us for the art history lesson the glasses couldn't provide, stay for our dissection of Silicon Valley's expensive display of cultural illiteracy.
Watch commercial #1: Art Prank Gone Wrong
Watch commercial #2: Hey Meta, Who Eats Art?
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