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Time of India
26-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
'Are You Sure?' Season 2 with RM? Fans hope for the idol to join Jimin and Jungkook for the variety show, as all three were spotted in Switzerland
Fans of BTS have started speculating again as members Jimin , Jungkook , and RM have all been spotted together in Switzerland! After getting discharged from their mandatory military service, all three members seem to be enjoying their vacation time. Fans of the group, however, have their speculations about whether there will be a season 2 of Jimin and Jungkook's variety cooking show 'Are You There' and whether RM will be joining the maknaes of the group or not. RM spotted in Switzerland; Jimin and Jungkook also there RM recently took to his social media account in order to share photos and videos from his vacation, sharing glimpses of the relaxing time he has been spending for the past few days. The idol went on a 'Namjooning' trip and shared glimpses of how he had been enjoying nature and new cultures recently. The rapper hadn't shared exactly where he was for his much-needed vacation, but fans of the group quickly discovered that there is a high chance that the idol might be in Switzerland. Previously, the idol had also been spotted in Basel for an international art fair in relation to a recent brand ambassador deal. He also attended the Fondation Beyeler in Riehen, Switzerland, according to the photos uploaded by the member. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Book 3 & 4 BHK apartments from 4.65 Cr* in Sec 22, Gurugram Ambience Creacions, Gurugram Learn More Undo Will RM be a part of 'Are You Sure?' season 2? Previously, before enlistment, BTS members Jimin and Jungkook had gone on a journey through New York, Jeju Island, and Sapporo for their variety show 'Are You Sure?' Beyond that, fans have been speculating that since rumours of Jimin and Jungkook both being in Europe have also been spread, there are high chances that the trio will be embarking on a completely new journey for a possible season 2 of the show. As of right now, no new updates have been provided by the members or their agency regarding the matter.
News18
26-06-2025
- Entertainment
- News18
BTS' RM To Join Jimin And Jungkook For Are You Sure 2? Fans Think So
Last Updated: Fans think RM might join Jimin and Jungkook for the new season, as all three of them were spotted in Switzerland around the same time. After returning to his civilian life, BTS' Kim Namjoon, aka RM, jetted off to an undisclosed location for a quiet vacation. The 30-year-old rapper got discharged from the military on June 10, following the completion of his 18-month-long mandatory service. With no confirmed group activity or solo project in hand, RM, along with the rest of the recently discharged members of BTS, have been busy enjoying their lives after a long time. Taking to his Instagram account, RM shared a series of stunning glimpses from his vacation, which began with him and his friend casually strolling on the streets. Following this, he was seen taking part in some random activities like throwing stones in a lake, eating out at a cafe, and of course, soaking in the sun in nature's lap. RM also visited a museum, seemingly Fondation Beyeler in Riehen, Switzerland, and relished a glass of a drink. View this post on Instagram A post shared by RM (@rkive) While the BTS leader did not reveal the exact location of his trip, fans on social media speculated that he is in Switzerland based on the places he visited. This came after RM was also spotted at the 2025 Art Basel fair as part of his official role as Samsung Art TV ambassador, which was held between June 19 and 22. That's not all. There are also rumours on social media that RM's teammates Jimin and Jungkook are also in Switzerland, probably filming some new content. Fans think that RM might join the duo for the new season of their Disney+ travel show, Are You Sure?, which premiered back in August 2024. In the show, the two friends explored places like New York, Jeju Island, and Sapporo before their military enlistment. Both Jimin and Jungkook got discharged from the military on June 11 after the completion of their service under the buddy program. View this post on Instagram A post shared by TAEKOOK_POWERCOUPLE (@taekook_powercouple.v2) Though there is no official confirmation on whether RM, Jimin and Jungkook are working together on a sequel to the show or another project altogether, fans are speculating that the BTS leader might make a guest appearance on Are You Sure? Part 2. First Published: June 26, 2025, 09:35 IST
BBC News
29-01-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Six Nordic paintings that can help us rethink winter
Winter isn't all bad – these "sublime" landscapes of the frozen North from the turn of the 20th Century offer us a way into resilience – and an "acceptance of the seasonality of life". With its bare trees, long nights and icy temperatures, it's perhaps unsurprising that, culturally in the Northern Hemisphere, we seem so conditioned to complain about winter. Yet, as the author Katherine May points out in her 2020 book Wintering, winter is also a valuable time for rest and retreat. "Winter offers us liminal spaces to inhabit," she writes. Its "starkness", she argues, re-sensitises us, and "can reveal colours that we would otherwise miss". For Nordic countries, where, in some regions, the season can last more than six months, making peace with winter is a necessity, with concepts such as the Norwegian friluftsliv (embracing the natural world) and the Danish hygge (hunkering down with simple comforts) offering fresh perspectives on cold weather. At the turn of the 20th Century, the frozen North – with its vast fjords, mystical boreal forests and radiant light – became a powerful muse for artists such as Hilma af Klint, Edvard Munch and Harald Sohlberg. These artists immersed themselves in these cold climates, and developed a specifically Nordic style of painting imbued with their emotional responses to the landscape. Around 70 of these intensely atmospheric, expressionist works by artists from Scandinavia, Finland and Canada are being showcased in a new exhibition, Northern Lights, a cross-Atlantic collaboration that debuts at the Fondation Beyeler in Basel, Switzerland, before travelling to New York's Buffalo AKG Art Museum in August. It was natural that these painters should be drawn to these wintery scenes, Ulf Küster, the exhibition's curator, tells the BBC. "In Nordic landscapes, snow is a very dominant factor of life from October to late April… It's just this massive presence of white and nature and wilderness and vastness that really defines this landscape, and I think these painters have found a very interesting response to that." This burst of Nordic landscape painting was also a response to the changes that the painters perceived as a result of population growth and industrialisation. "There was a big desire in the late 19th Century to return to pure nature and the simple life," explains Küster. "You had these highly industrialised countries and pollution, and the pureness of white snow must have been quite a contrast." Many of these northern regions were comparatively untouched by change, and featured vast, unpopulated vistas that were inherently painterly. Even today, Norway has a population of just 5.5 million, but a length of around 1,600km; while around three-quarters of Finland is still forested. To convey this scale, these paintings often adopt unconventional compositions where the view appears to stretch beyond the canvas. They are "boundless", says Küster. "They don't have borders". This is reinforced by the bird's-eye view adopted in works such as View from Pyynikki Ridge (1900) by the Finnish artist Helmi Biese. "It's as if the artists have used a drone," remarks Küster. The height and scope of these unpopulated views also convey a sense of isolation and loneliness. Harald Sohlberg, whose luminescent 1914 version of Winter Night in the Mountains is widely considered to be the national painting of Norway, wrote: "The longer I stood gazing at the scene, the more I seemed to feel what a solitary and pitiful atom I was in an endless universe… It was as if I had suddenly awakened in a new, unimagined and inexplicable world… Above the white contours of a northern winter stretched the endless vault of heaven, twinkling with myriads of stars. It was like a service in some vast cathedral." It was this search for solitude that doubtless drew the Swedish artist Anna Boberg to the Norwegian archipelago of Lofoten, a remote location steeped in Viking folklore and, according to her 1901 memoir, "the apotheosis of Arctic beauty and wilderness". It was here, dressed head-to-toe in seal and reindeer fur, that she produced her Northern Lights (1901) painting, most likely sketched en plein air. In a commanding scene that speaks to the Romantic notion of "the sublime", prismatic streaks of light descend from the heavens dwarfing the snowy landscape. Boberg's awe when confronted with this dazzling wintry world with its unique light is clear. "What really drove these people was to find a response to the extremities of nature – the very essence of snow, winter and ice." explains Küster. To achieve this, they would "get as close to nature as possible", he says. Far from hiding from the harsh winter, Boberg and her contemporaries immersed themselves in the landscape. "They are painters who really wanted to paint the experience, to feel the extreme temperature and the snow blindness," says Küster. Munch, he continues, had outdoor studios, and would leave his paintings outside "just to let nature test them", while some of the Canadian painters would paddle out on to lakes and paint from their canoes. Beautiful and barbaric Inland, the boreal forest embodied the enchanting duality of these landscapes, which were both beautiful and barbaric. The dark, primeval forests became an emblem of foreboding in Nordic folklore and myth – places where you could get lost, and that concealed unknown dangers. The Nordic winter landscape fed the fairytales of the Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. "Below them the wind blew cold, wolves howled, and black crows screamed as they skimmed across the glittering snow," he writes in The Snow Queen (1844). "But up above, the moon shone bright and large." This storybook quality can be seen in Winter Moonlight (1895) by the Swedish painter Gustaf Fjaestad. Here, his clever use of pointillism makes the snow appear to glitter, while the hand-like branches of the dense, drooping trees look poised to come alive. In The Lair of the Lynx (1908), Akseli Gallen-Kallela, a Finn, also revels in this tantalising, darker side to the landscape, inviting us to scan the canvas for the dark places beasts may be lurking, and to follow their tracks in the snow. More like this:• Eight nature books to change your life• The climate warnings in 19th-Century paintings• How to transform your home with art Notable, also, is the power and movement he gives to the snow as it winds in thick layers around the trees. "The brushwork of this painting meticulously reacts to the layers of snow," says Küster. "It's snowing, then it's freezing, there might be some sun and there's a little thaw, and then there's freezing again and more snow comes on top." The painter is clearly entranced by the snow, the layers of paint telling the snow's story. The visual effect, observes Küster, is "like a sort of wedding cake". As well as drawing inspiration from the landscape's mythical associations, these artists participated in their own myth-making, expressing – through their own strong emotional responses to these unspoilt regions – an often idealised view of the Nordic winter. Some, such as Edvard Munch, nevertheless hinted at the changes threatening these serene expanses. During the winter of 1900, he stayed in Nordstrand on the banks of the Oslofjord. Here he painted his now-famous rendition of its serene waters reflecting a magnificent sky of pink, blue and yellow. But this picturesque, swirling scene, foregrounded by pines, is interrupted by a bulbous trail of white paint, denoting, not snow this time, but, as the title makes clear, Train Smoke. "When we look back at the landscape works of Gallen-Kallela and Biese, we are reminded of how much of the environment has changed in the intervening century," writes Anna-Maria Pennonen in her essay Changing Landscapes in the exhibition catalogue. "The Baltic Sea no longer freezes every winter, and the period when the ground is covered with snow in Helsinki can be very short, perhaps only a few weeks instead of months." As for the magnificent boreal forest, it continues to be threatened by logging and agriculture. Recognising the mutability of these environments now adds a powerful new dimension when a modern audience engages with these 100-year-old works. "They ask us to think about the enchanting image of the forest in relation to its past and current transformation, as well as in relation to our own part therein," writes Helga Christoffersen in the catalogue. The works invite feelings of nostalgia and melancholy, and our appreciation that they are endangered only amplifies their beauty and psychological intensity. Danish artist Jakob Kudsk Steensen, born in 1987, addresses this issue of climate change in Boreal Dreams (2024), an interactive, immersive work and online experience, commissioned for Northern Lights. The work uses virtual reality to connect past, present and future boreal ecosystems. It takes visitors on a journey into five imagined futures for the boreal forest, marrying technology with environmental data to create a visceral experience of nature. Yet, however bleak the future seems, raw nature – these works suggest – can offer something transcendent. "We like to think that it's possible for life to be one eternal summer," writes May in Wintering. "But life's not like that." By confronting and reframing winter, as these artists do, we can accept the seasonality of life, and cope better with the dark periods of our life. "Winter had blanked me, blasted me wide open," she declares. "In all that whiteness, I saw the chance to make myself new again." Northern Lights is at the Fondation Beyeler in Riehen/Basel in Switzerland until 25 May and at Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, New York, from 1 August 2025 to 12 January 2026. The accompanying catalogue, edited by Ulf Küster, will be published by Hatje Cantz on 13 February. -- For more Culture stories from the BBC, follow us on Facebook, X and Instagram.
