Rob Fields
Connecting people, art, and ideas via arts consulting, marketing and art advising.
Boards: @uniondocs, Volta Art Fair, @abgmf
Image: Joana Choumali, "Whose Peace Is It Keeping?" 2024
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- Reposted by Rob FieldsThey kidnapped this five year old when he was coming home from school and sent him to a jail in Texas. Imagine how terrified he must be.
- Reposted by Rob FieldsYou’re arresting terrified children and using them as bait. Arresting kids getting treatment at doctors’ offices. Blinding protesters. Illegally raiding homes. Making people terrified to leave their homes. You want to pee in peace? Quit your fucking job.
- Reposted by Rob FieldsThe answer to “How could it ever have happened back then?” is right in front of us, here & now.
- Reposted by Rob FieldsIn 2017 I read Valeria Luiselli’s book about her experiences interpreting for very young children facing deportation. The name of the book, Tell Me How It Ends, is heart wrenching to think of in this moment.
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- Reposted by Rob FieldsIn art school we went over this and actually i kinda want to add that i think men are just not socialized to care about the subtle differences in these colors. Cause i can tell that there is a difference in those nails and in the lip sticks and greyish nails in the video. -
- Gavin Newsom is just a guy who's interested in power. He's willing to entertain a dialogue with execrable people like Shapiro. This is the latest version of Bill Clinton's "triangulation". He's dangerous bc he provides a platform for ppl who aren't engaged in any good faith arguments.
- The response below: On-point. Ht @kdc.bsky.social
- Reposted by Rob FieldsLouder. For the cheap seats in the back.
- And with Trump suffering from increasing levels of dementia (allegedly), it'll be all Miller running the show. newrepublic.com/article/2053...
- An administration that just didn't GAF. These people are all evil.
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- Reposted by Rob FieldsThe problem with ICE is not insufficient training or even training content. It’s creating an agency where you give people guns and tell them to terrorize Brown people and then recruit people excited to do that.
- Suss, given the source.
- I'm missing the Kerry James Marshall exhibit at the @royalacademyarts.bsky.social in London, but I bought the catalog. Well worth it bc the interview with him is gold. Here's one of the quotes that resonated. #quotes #kerryjamesmarshall #artists #contemporaryart #artadvisor #painting #blackartist
- Reposted by Rob FieldsWinter floods wreak havoc on Gaza displacement camps as Israel blocks aid aje.io/nu8pwm
- Hey, y'all! Two post that highlight some of the great art that was on exhibit this year. First, here's my "Best of 2025" list: iamrobfields.substack.com/p/the-best-a...
- Second, here's my "Honorable Mentions" list. Honestly, there was too much good stuff coming out of the African diaspora and the Global South to let everything hinge on a single list. iamrobfields.substack.com/p/best-art-e...
- Enjoy, and keep an eye of for these artists and their future exhibitions. /End
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- An example of bad "rebranding": Going from "Philadelphia Museum of Art" to "Philadelphia Art Museum". As a former cultural institution leader, I can't help but think of the resources that were ultimately wasted on such a negligible change.
- Beautiful rework by Stew!
- Your new Zohran Mamdani theme song, from Tight Natural Productions. youtu.be/b0qlC6tpBCQ #vote #music #Zohran #Mamdani
- If you missed #OptOutOctober like I did, here's @eff.org's full guide to improving your digital privacy and security. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
- Reposted by Rob FieldsAn entire city of unsupervised theatre kids.
- Great! Lest there be any doubt that Musk is a terrible person, there's more right-wing, AI slop on the way. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
- Via @shannonrwatts.bsky.social: "Good-versus-evil thinking increases cruelty because it gives people a reason to stomach violence." How to stop cult-like thinking with Jane Borden open.substack.com/pub/shannonw...
- @drstaceypatton.bsky.social: "What we’re witnessing is the deliberate cultivation of biological exhaustion as social control. Hunger, stress, and deprivation don’t just break spirits, they rewire bodies." Starving You is the Point: The Neuroscience of Hunger and Obedience in America bit.ly/3JkXXq4
- Congrats, Grace Wales Bonner! www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025...
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- Reposted by Rob FieldsI feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
- Ya think? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/p...
- A common question from new collectors about pieces of art they're considering: "But is it a good investment?" In my latest Substack post, I share some of the signals I evaluate as I advise my clients on potential art purchases. Read on. open.substack.com/pub/iamrobfi...
- One of the best pieces I've read recently on this moment of constant mass shootings. "America is reading a suicide note written in the hand of white male grievance...And the country keeps pretending the note doesn’t exist." drstaceypatton1865.substack.com/p/suicide-tu...
- One of the biggest offenders when it comes to bad faith arguments, Bret Stephens, is at it again. Basically, folks like Stephens believe they should be able to say anything, without consequence. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/o...
- I hate how everybody in this administration is dead-set on linking DEI to "lowered standards", when that's not at all the case. Meanwhile, what folks SHOULD be upset about is the placing of unqualified people in Federal positions just because they're sycophants for Orange Julius.
- Reposted by Rob FieldsRobby Starbuck is a far-right activist. Meta putting him in the position of being a "bias advisor" for its chat bot is insane.
- The Dallas shooter, Joshua Jahn. If he were Black/Muslim, we'd already be hearing things like, "Where were his parents?" or, "Where was he radicalized?" Right-wing trolls would be implying the inherent criminality in our community. Where's the national convo on what's going on w White men & boys?
- Reposted by Rob FieldsI've written about this a half-dozen times since 2015, because it continues to be relevant that the alt-right originally weaponized irony and memes in order to 1) spread extremism without consequence and 2) cultivate all these semi-ironic violent extremist edgelords foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/15/c...
- Reposted by Rob FieldsThe white supremacist conceit that everyone in antiquity was living under some kind of global jim crow segregation is just complete bullshit news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
- Where that Rapture at, tho?
- No backbone, no profits. Ht @hystericalblkns.bsky.social
- Reposted by Rob FieldsBy next spring, they'll be bragging about the passenger airliner they shot out of the sky because it was filled with "antifa commandos"
- Reposted by Rob FieldsChristian nationalism is backed by radical right wing think tanks, media companies, gun manufacturers, etc. It's a web of money & extreme ideas connecting Christian nationalists to those behind the scenes, such as Federalist Society kingpin, Leonard Leo.
- Reposted by Rob FieldsThis is what the slow breakup of the United States could look like—not political violence or civil war, but blue states banding together to protect themselves from Trump's unchecked and unaccountable regime. And meanwhile, states like Florida ban vaccine mandates. apnews.com/article/flor...
- This, and Schumer, Jeffries, and Gillibrand STILL haven't endorsed Mamdani. The Democratic Party’s Voter Registration Crisis www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/u...
- Reposted by Rob Fields“Feeling cute, might violently beat up a brown person later.”
- Reposted by Rob FieldsRead this very carefully: *61%* of all the people who have died of starvation in Gaza over the past 22 months have died in the past *3 weeks*
- Reposted by Rob FieldsSudan is starving. www.bbc.com/news/article...
- Isn't that just called a measles vaccine? Geez. Ht @ebogjonson.bsky.social
- As the US hits a 33-year high in measles infections, there is now a "race" to find a treatment for the disease. One pharma company "is banking on a continuing decline in vaccination rates to fuel a need for measles treatments—and in turn, more investor interest" 🎁 link www.wsj.com/health/healt...
- Reposted by Rob FieldsI’m glad that the woman at the center of this story was able to make the choice she felt was right for her and her family. But what’s happening here is horrifying: conservatives are valorizing these stories strategically—they want to make the skyrocketing maternal mortality rate *positive*
- The Next Time Some Idiot Tries to Tell You the GOP is “The Party of Business” hartmannreport.com/p/chapter-15... via @hartmannreport.com
- Reposted by Rob FieldsFor those who don't know, Blood Tribe is a neo-Nazi group. These groups sometimes pile out of vehicles and do quick marches that they can film and post online. This time, they ran into some folks who weren't down with seeing Nazis on their streets, and they got beat.
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- Reposted by Rob FieldsSinclair Broadcast pushes right-wing propaganda into 40% of local news markets. Fox News is in 70M homes. The WaPo and Politico owners are Trump donors. CBS has a political bias monitor Our news is carefully curated by conservative billionaires. open.substack.com/pub/populari...
- Good morning, everyone. Wishing you all a productive day. Please stay safe and sane out there. Let's go!
- Reposted by Rob FieldsIn exchange for government approval of a merger, Skydance pledges to root out "bias" at CBS. Folks, this is competitive authoritarianism. www.cnn.com/2025/07/23/m...
- Reposted by Rob FieldsJust another reason I subscribe to @propublica.org.
- Also, note the ICE sleight of hand: They're not, as their vest say, "Police" or "DEA". This is all just a cosplay for unaccountable thugs. That's why they hide their faces and roll 12-deep to kidnap a single person. They know it's wrong, but have been told, "You can get away with it."
- Reposted by Rob FieldsThis news dropped the same day as this marvelous work from UF on a new immunotherapy method that could treat a variety of different cancers. We are so close to life changing, life saving breakthroughs, and ignorant ghouls are throwing it all away www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Rob FieldsHave been covering this genocidal war since day one, with deep respect for my sources. Please reach out, and please share with your networks:
- This is one of the major talking points that I see from pro-Israeli government members of my family, now proven false: www.reuters.com/world/middle...
- Reposted by Rob FieldsPeople focus on Mamdani’s talents as a communicator but also remarkable is his video production team: these shots and edit convey both star power and a self-effacing demeanor. The clips are also powerful play for validation among black male voters without feeling like heavy-handed pandering.
- You can always find me on Team Eff Thomas Chatterton Williams. He, Coleman Hughes, and John McWhorter are always trying to position themselves as the special negroes.
- Talk about sh*tting the bed: Columbia paid $200MM in extortion money AND handed over control of the admissions process to bad faith actors. I hope other universities see this for the cautionary tale about appeasement that it is. ht @antheabutler.bsky.social
- Reposted by Rob FieldsGaza death toll continues to rise, 79 killed in 24 hours - middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog…
- Reposted by Rob FieldsA lot of older adults forced a war on universities because that’s where their kids realized their parents were evil.
- "...today’s globally minded Americans are realising that wealth means more than strong portfolio returns. It means optionality." And they have the option to leave this mess of a situation that Trump, Elon, and Project 2025 made. & that's exactly what they're doing. www.pwmnet.com/content/7eec...
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- Amid the country's rightward shift, it's par for the course for the @nytimes.com to give Ross Douthat an even bigger platform so that he can amplify Christo-facists like Allie Beth Stuckey. But, of course. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...
- The culture has moved forward, but these myopic right-wingers can only see things through the lens of supremacist nostalgia. This is why art is such a crucial way to push back. Superman or 'Superwoke'? Right-wing critics of the new DC movie say the latter www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/...
- Prime Day is a scam popular.info/p/prime-day-...
- A must read!
- A new report from UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese uncovers the economic interests benefiting from Israel's genocide in Gaza. mondoweiss.net/2025/07/new-... #Palestine #Israel
- These major consulting firms will, literally, work for anyone. Ht @hystericalblkns.bsky.social
- A US firm (Boston Consulting Group) was paid $4M+ to model ethnically-cleansing 500,000 people from Gaza. This is the same firm that helped establish the 'aid' operation currently murdering Palestinians every single day. (They have now disavowed that depraved project.) www.ft.com/content/c0e6...
- Reposted by Rob FieldsYou better listen to @edroso.bsky.social
- These people can't imagine anyone NOT being a partisan hack. Because that's what they are.
- Reposted by Rob FieldsGift link: wapo.st/3IcNOLa
- #Baltimore Mayor #BrandonScott invested in 42 summer youth camps, 29 literacy programs, extended the rec center hours to 11 p.m, planned block parties, opened the pools for safe fun, & opened several schools up for summer classes. Crime is down 62%. 🔥🔥 www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
- Reposted by Rob FieldsWho’d of thunk? Pardoned Jan. 6 Rioter Sentenced to Life in Assassination Plot www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/u...
- I think it’s worth being explicit about what’s going on with the Zohran admissions stuff - this is a bad faith attack designed to try to drive the older Black voters that made up Cuomo’s base in the primary and who vote party line in the general to support Eric Adams to keep Mamdani out of City Hall
