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‘Unlike anything we’ve experienced’: fans swarm San Francisco for BTS star’s art exhibition
K-pop star RM gave a boost to the previously struggling SFMOMA with an exhibition of over 100 pieces from his collection Two years ago, RM of the wildly popular K-pop boyband BTS was serving as a soldier in the South Korean military when he received an offer from América Castillo, a museum curator in San Francisco: would he consider an exhibition of his private art collection? “I loved it,” said RM (real name: Kim Namjoon) at the media preview of RM x SFMOMA: Between You and Me , a new exhibition that opened in San Francisco earlier this month and is co-curated by SFMOMA’s Castillo and Hyoeun Kim. “There aren’t many things that show a person more honestly than a collection they’ve built over a long period of time.” Continue reading...
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K-pop star RM gave a boost to the previously struggling SFMOMA with an exhibition of over 100 pieces from his collection Two years ago, RM of the wildly popular K-pop boyband BTS was serving as a soldier in the South Korean military when he received an offer from América Castillo, a museum curator in San Francisco: would he consider an exhibition of his private art collection? “I loved it,” said RM (real name: Kim Namjoon) at the media preview of RM x SFMOMA: Between You and Me , a new exhibition that opened in San Francisco earlier this month and is co-curated by SFMOMA’s Castillo and Hyoeun Kim. “There aren’t many things that show a person more honestly than a collection they’ve built over a long period of time.” Continue reading...
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According to The Guardian’s source item, ‘Unlike anything we’ve experienced’: fans swarm San Francisco for BTS star’s art exhibition, K-pop star RM gave a boost to the previously struggling SFMOMA with an exhibition of over 100 pieces from his collection Two years ago, RM of the wildly popular K-pop boyband BTS was serving as a soldier in the South Korean military when he received an offer from América Castillo, a museum curator in San Francisco: would he consider an exhibition of his private art collection? “I loved it,” said RM (real name: Kim Namjoon) at the media preview of RM x SFMOMA: Between You and Me , a new exhibition that opened in San Francisco earlier this month and is co-curated by SFMOMA’s Castillo and Hyoeun Kim. “There aren’t many things that show a person more honestly than a collection they’ve built over a long period of time.” Continue reading…
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