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 dropped their music video for Apeshit, shot on location at the Louvre Museum, the world went, well. "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.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. Beyoncé and Jay-Z in front of the Great Sphinx of Tanis. "During their last visit in May 2018, they explained their idea of filming," the Louvre added.
In a statement, the museum said Beyoncé and Jay Z had visited the Louvre four times in the last 10 years. Apest, Beyonce and Jay-Zs new music video, looks to the Louvre for cachet, and there are unexpected layers in how they do it.
"And they're recognizing their history and how far they've been able to come despite all the oppression that they've faced historically and currently, which I think they speak a lot to in the video." "They're relating it back to art history, back to those pieces, and showing that 'Look, we are here, this is our presence, this is our history,' and they're recognizing the facts that this is how black individuals have often been portrayed in the history of art," Herrera continued. Watching this weekend’s APESHIT music video, an obvious question arose: how did Beyoncé and Jay-Z, aka The Carters, manage to get private access to the Louvre and do their thing in front of whatever masterpiece they fancied, given the usual gaggle of tourists that typically surround these artworks. While the very act of renting of the Louvre is itself a display of wealth (even though renting the Louvre costs a lot less. To rent out the entire Louvre Museum in Paris for their music video marks the epitome of fame, and the crowds swarming The Carters. The famed Paris museum now offers a 90-minute self-guided tour to see 17 works of. The Louvre is now offering a guided, 90-minute, tour based on Beyonce and Jay-Zs music video for 'Apeshit,' which was filmed at the Paris art museum. Like most museum visitors, they take regular breaks - chilling out on the Louvres plush sofa-seats Jay-Z man-spreading as Beyoncé uses. Here Are the Lyrics to Beyonce & JAY-Z’s ‘Apeshit’. The Louvre, featured in Beyoncé and Jay-Zs latest music video, is inviting visitors to tour the shoot locations. Beyoncé and Jay-Zs much-viewed Apest music video helped Louvre Museum break record with 10.2 million visitors in 2018Welcome to the official Beautiful Lif. "So to retake that space, they're presenting black bodies and black art and they're bringing popular culture which is often looked down on by academics and showing them this is real art, this is the current art," she said. A music video created to promote Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s collaborative album Everything Is Love, APESHIT pursues an agenda of black uplift and reparation already manifested in Beyoncé’s visual album Lemonade (2016). Jay-Z stands aside, while Beyoncé dances frenetically. 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. Some 10. Herrera said that the music video is especially powerful because "most representations of people of color has been portraying them as exotic or as less than human." It was one of 2018s most memorable music videos, and now the Louvre says Beyoncé and Jay-Zs 'Apeshit' is also partly responsible for the famed Paris museum welcoming a record number of visitors last year. Happy Saturday: Beyoncé and Jay-Z have a surprise gift for you In the middle of their On the Run II world tour, the couple has just released a new album called Everything Is Love, which is available to stream exclusively on Tidal.