The 90-minute tour, which the museum calls a “thematic trail,” shows visitors the 17 pieces of art seen throughout “Apeshit.” Currently, the tour is available to take Wednesday through Sunday.įor those visiting the Louvre on Mondays and Tuesdays, the Louvre also offers a map highlighting the 17 works seen in Beyonce and Jay-Z’s video - including Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa - so that tourists can still walk in the Carters’ steps. When Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s new album, This is Love, dropped over the weekend, the whole world seemed to stop (well, my world anyways). Still from Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s Apeshit music video. Beyoncé and JAY-Z renting out Paris popular Louvre museum helped the museum attract over 10.2 million people in 2018, surpassing the museums 2012 record of 9.7 million visitors, and beating out.
Smirking, tight lipped, she side-eyes Jay-Z and Beyoncé, whose bright blaxploitation power suits outshine her matron’s weeds and announce that. This isn't the first time the couple posed together in front of the Mona Lisa, but it is a little more polished than the selfies they shared during their 2014 visit.Not even a month after Beyonce and Jay-Z released the video for their joint single “Apeshit,” the Louvre has created a guided tour based on the Everything Is Love visual, which was filmed at Paris’ iconic art museum. If there is anyone who could upstage Mona Lisa it is, without a doubt, Beyoncé. Jay-Z was caught watching ‘Judge Judy’ when he met Bradley Cooper. The video is topped and tailed by the Mona Lisa. La Victoire de Samothrace, chef-duvre emblématique du musée, est l’une. Le couple s’est mis en scène parmi les uvres, elles-mêmes magnifiées. Des stars à la rencontre d’autres stars au cur d’un palais. Vulture notes that the Louvre wouldn't comment on how much the couple paid to rent out the museum for the shoot. En 2018, la chanteuse Beyoncé et le rappeur Jay-Z ont choisi le Louvre comme décor du clip de leur duo, « Apeshit ». As The New York Times points out, around 500 shoots take place at the Louvre every year, with Wonder Woman and Fifty Shades Freed among recent notable examples. The video for Apeshit, directed by Ricky Saiz, marks the Carters’ return to the Parisian museum, where they famously posed in front of the Mona Lisa back in 2014. Throughout the Apeshit video, Beyoncé and Jay-Z repeatedly upstage some of Western classical art’s most famous images in one of its central sacred spaces. It's not all that surprising that the Louvre would agree to the super-famous couple wanting to shoot there, but it is pretty shocking that the museum reportedly costs about $17,500 for people to get the privilege to film there. The Paris landmark welcomed a record 10.2 million visitors in 2018, a 25 percent spike from 2017, partly because a music video Beyonce and Jay-Z shot at the iconic locale went viral. In their first single from collaboration album Love Is. “The deadlines were very tight but the Louvre was quickly convinced because the synopsis showed a real attachment to the museum and its beloved artworks.” The Louvre museum in Paris has created a 90-minute guided tour based on the pieces of art shown in Beyoncé and JAY-Z’s latest music video. During their last visit in May 2018, they explained their idea of filming,” a spokesperson explained to Vulture. Beyoncé and Jay-Z filmed their ‘Apest’ music video at the world’s largest art museum, paying tribute to many famous artworks including the ‘Mona Lisa’ by Leonardo da Vinci, the ‘Venus de Milo’, Jacques-Louis David’s ‘Coronation of Napoleon’ and the incredible ‘Winged Victory of Samothrace’ dating back to 2nd century BC. During their last visit in May 2018, they explained their idea of filming,' a spokesperson for the museum told Vulture. “Beyoncé and JAY-Z visited the Louvre four times in the last ten years. 'Beyonce and Jay-Z visited the Louvre four times in the last ten years. The album, which was released by the duo under the name The Carters, was accompanied by a lavish video for the Quavo-featuring single "Apeshit." Filmed on location in the Louvre in Paris, the Ricky Saiz-directed video also acts as a very effective commercial for the iconic museum, so it makes sense that the Louvre agreed to it. The video itself is gorgeously shot, and does show a continued interest in art on behalf of the artists, JAY-Z and Beyoncé, to engage with art (notable precursors being JAY-Zs 'Picasso Baby. Over the weekend, Beyoncé and JAY-Z surprised the world with the sudden drop of their first collaborative album, Everything Is Love.