RM: Pop Star and Art Enthusiast

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BTS’ RM explored the accidental beginnings of his love of art in a recent interview with The New York Times.

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visit to the Art Institute of Chicago in 2018 when BTS was on tour.

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Observing Seurat and Monet paintings “was like Stendhal syndrome,” when art causes a

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