Lady Gaga defaces Mona Lisa in Louvre promo for Joker sequel

Lady Gaga, starring as Harley Quinn alongside Joaquin Phoenix in the upcoming film Joker: Folie à Deux, filmed a promotional spot at the Louvre in Paris. The video shows her character drawing a red smile on the protective glass of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa with lipstick. The Louvre has updated its social media profile images to feature the defaced Mona Lisa. The spot was released to coincide with the museum's exhibition 'Le figure dei folli. Dal Medioevo ai romantici' (Figures of Fools: From the Middle Ages to the Romantics), which explores madness—a central theme of the Todd Phillips-directed musical. The marketing campaign positions the Louvre as a pop-culture-friendly institution, following a tradition of films set at the museum, including Jean-Luc Godard's Bande à part, Bernardo Bertolucci's The Dreamers, and Ron Howard's The Da Vinci Code.