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[📰] K-Media: BTS RM selected as 35 innovators for ArtNet

RM (Kim Nam-joon, 28), the leader of BTS, a renowned art lover, is the only Korean to be selected among the 35 innovators in the art world selected by Artnet, a world-renowned art magazine.

In 2020, ArtNet News +

selected leading artists, dealers, and entrepreneurs in the art world and released a list of 35 people, and released its second list this year. The 35 innovators range in age from 28 to 73, and include a variety of people from New York, London, Hong Kong, Cape Town, Bangkok, +

Nairobi and Guatemala City. It includes young artists, galleryists, and a K-pop star.

RM is also known as a world-renowned musician and collector. He is an avid collector of works by Korean artists such as Lee Dae-won and Kim Chong-hak, as well as KAWS and Takashi Murakami. He +

is also a well-versed art patron with a huge influence on social media with about 40 million Instagram followers, inspiring many BTS fans to visit various exhibitions, from the Philip Guston Show at the Museum of Art in Boston to traditional white porcelain moon jars in +

Hong Kong and Korea.

RM's love for art is so sincere that he also expressed his ambition to create an art space to display his own private collection shared in a podcast interview of "Art Basel." In an interview with the NY Times in August, he said he was not as interested +

previously in the art museum when he went with his family when he was a child, but he stopped by the Chicago Art Institute during his 2018 concert tour in the U.S. & saw Monet and Serra's work, a feeling like "Standal Syndrome." Since then, he has gained knowledge by seriously +

devouring books and getting musical inspiration from works of art. It is known that RM's studio also houses of works by Korean artists such as Yun Hyong-keun, Park Su-geun, and Nam June Paik.

Over the past few years, he has donated 100 million won to the art world and sponsored+

publications by the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art and the restoration of 19th-century royal bridal gowns at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. RM also recorded an audio guide for LACMA's exhibition "The Space Between: The Modern in Korean Art," which runs +

through until February next year. After taking RM on a recent tour of the galleries, LACMA’s director Michael Govan told Artnet News, “We had a beautiful conversation about his interest in art, and also about his deepening interest in Korean culture. He’s a real art person.”

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