Art History, or the iLLUMiNATi? What Jay Z and Beyoncé are Really Up To with Their Viral New Louvre Video Three ways to look at the ‘Apes**t‘ video. The world is going apeshit over “Apes**t” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbMqWXnpXcA) Unleashed on Saturday to go with the first track from Everything Is Love (https://tidal.com/browse/album/90521612), the new joint effort from Jay-Z and Beyoncé (aka the Carters), the characteristically regal music video for the song uses the Musée du Louvre (https://www.louvre.fr/en) in Paris as backdrop. It starts and ends with the Mona Lisa, with stop-offs at the Nike of Samothrace, the Venus de Milo, the Oath of the Horatii, the Wedding at Cana, the Raft of the Medusa, and more masterpieces besides in between. If you want to “read” the symbolism of art in it, as many have, what do you get? Compare “Apes**t”’s shot of the Mona Lisa to the couple’s 2014 vacation pic (https://news.artnet.com/art-world/beyonce-and-jay-Z-pose-with-mona-lisa-135748) in front of the Mona Lisa. There, they look like tourists, strikingly ordinary for all their natural charisma. Here, in the video, they are fiercely and effortlessly aristocratic in their powdered pink and green suits. The Louvre says (http://www.vulture.com/consent.html?redirect_uri=%2F2018%2F06%2Fbeyonce-jay-Z-apeshit-why-the-louvre-agreed.html%3Fvia%3Dgdpr-consent&redirect_host=www.vulture.com&orig_qs=) Beyoncé and Jay-Z have visited the museum together four times, pitching … Meer lezen over Ben Davis – Art History, or the iLLUMiNATi? What Jay Z and Beyoncé are Really Up To with Their Viral New Louvre Video