Lorde just snagged a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year for Melodrama. It’s beautiful, haunting, and amazing music, because of course it is, because it’s Lorde. Also checking off those boxes: The super artsy portrait that serves as the album’s cover.
Minus the “LORDE” signature, it wouldn’t look out of place in a museum, and that’s kind of what a photographer and Lorde superfan named Nina Richard thought. So she did. She brought it to the Louvre in Paris, probably the most famous museum in the world (they’ve got the Mona Lisa), set it up various places, and started taking photos.
Hey @lorde , I hung Melodrama in the Louvre !
A masterpiece surrounded by others – l took it on a journey through time and space, from Antiquity, passing by Renaissance, to Modern Times.
(I had to do it very quickly cause security started to watch me and hunt down on me lol) pic.twitter.com/PlOZOqoA9l
— Nina ⚡ (@NinaRichard_) November 26, 2017
Nope — it’s real, not Photoshop.
sorry but no :/ nice try anyway pic.twitter.com/okPJPQGxNu
— Nina ⚡ (@NinaRichard_) November 26, 2017
Right where it belongs!
It's just the quality dude, I actually live in Paris I really did it wtf pic.twitter.com/PA4UFmK8O4
— Nina ⚡ (@NinaRichard_) November 26, 2017
Richard pulled it off the reverse-art-heist, even though she says she almost got arrested for doing it. Worth it: Other hardcore fans of the New Zealand-born artist (and now art) couldn’t be more pleased.
This is amazing
— MADDIE (@L0RDEMUSIC) November 26, 2017
i dont know you but i love you
— i cronch u !!!!!!!!!!!!!! (@raygunrey) November 27, 2017
babe,you made history with this,it’s truly the most iconic moment of this fanbase ??
— zi (@fuckedny) November 26, 2017
I C O N I C
— Victoria Lamb (@victorialamb_) November 27, 2017
you're a crazy genius woman. rofl.
— Ǝ Rolando Pezzati E (@ContinuedSilenc) November 27, 2017
Richard also let Republic Records know. That’s Lorde’s label…which means Lorde (her real name is Ella, not Lorde) has probably heard about it, too!
@RepublicRecords thanks for liking it haha ! hope you liked the idea, hope Ella will like it too 🙂
— Nina ⚡ (@NinaRichard_) November 26, 2017