

Elsewhere in the museum, they work their hips before “The Coronation of Napoleon,” an 1807 painting by Jacques-Louis David. The dancers perform synchronized choregraphy on the grand Daru staircase that ascends up to the museum’s iconic Winged Victory of Samothrace, a marble Hellenistic sculpture dating from about the 2nd century B.C. Amid calls to diversify museums, she’s staged an intervention with a procession of black female dancers wearing nude-toned body suits in a spectrum of beige, tan, and brown. Powerful images have become Beyoncé’s stock-in-trade and in this regard the video doesn’t disappoint. The nine-track collaborative project is titled “Everything is Love” and both artists appear on every track including the first single “Apeshit,” the subject of the video. The Paris museum played host to the Carters who dropped a surprise album on Saturday. FOR THEIR LATEST VIDEO, Beyoncé and Jay-Z took over the Louvre, stunting and styling through the galleries without a tourist in sight.
