Rob Fields
@robfields.bsky.social
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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Boards: @uniondocs, Volta Art Fair, @abgmf
Image: Joana Choumali, "Whose Peace Is It Keeping?" 2024
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Rob Fields
@robfields.bsky.social
· Apr 6
Demystify the Art World w/ Rob Fields | How to Collect with Integrity, Strategy & Intention
YouTube video by Dear Glory with Moriah Alise
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It was a privilege to be in conversation and community with curator and fellow art advisor Moriah Alise. Here's our conversation on her YouTube channel, #DearGlory
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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.
As a former cultural institution leader, I can't help but think of the resources that were ultimately wasted on such a negligible change.
November 5, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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.
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.
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#vote #music #Zohran #Mamdani
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#vote #music #Zohran #Mamdani
November 2, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Beautiful rework by Stew!
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...
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
Opt Out October: Daily Tips to Protect Your Privacy and Security
Trying to take control of your online privacy can feel like a full-time job. But if you break it up into small tasks and take on one project at a time it makes the process of protecting your privacy m...
www.eff.org
November 1, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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...
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
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An entire city of unsupervised theatre kids.
The music cuts off awkwardly before the end, but this is an incredible NYC Halloween costume compilation.
November 1, 2025 at 10:40 AM
An 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...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Elon Musk launches encyclopedia ‘fact-checked’ by AI and aligning with rightwing views
Grokipedia’s entries hew closely to conservative talking points, with some journalists already saying it contains inaccurate information
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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...
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
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How to stop cult-like thinking with Jane Borden
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How to stop cult-like thinking with Jane Borden
A Q&A with the author of "Cults Like Us: Why Doomsday Thinking Drives America"
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October 28, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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...
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
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Starving You is the Point: The Neuroscience of Hunger and Obedience in America
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Starving You is the Point: The Neuroscience of Hunger and Obedience in America
We are watching a government experiment in population management using stress, scarcity, and biology to keep people too tired to fight back.
open.substack.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:35 PM
@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
Starving You is the Point: The Neuroscience of Hunger and Obedience in America
bit.ly/3JkXXq4
'i did not know that there were so many cowards in this country'
“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
October 28, 2025 at 5:53 AM
October 8, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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I 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.
October 7, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I 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.
Americans’ Support for Israel Dramatically Declines, Times/Siena Poll Finds
www.nytimes.com
September 30, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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.
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How to Tell If the Art You’re Buying Is Investment-Grade
8 signals I use to advise collectors
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September 29, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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...
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...
"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...
Suicide Turned Outward: Why White Men Are Turning Their Self-Destruction Into Mass Violence
This Substack is reader-supported.
drstaceypatton1865.substack.com
September 29, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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...
"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...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/o...
September 25, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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...
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.
Duffy on his relationship w/European nations: "They're also pushing sustainable fuels & DEI & there's a lot of spaces you can have that conversation, but in aviation that affects safety. I want the best and brightest pilots & best fuel on my plane. So we're pushing back on those initiatives."
September 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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.
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Robby Starbuck is a far-right activist. Meta putting him in the position of being a "bias advisor" for its chat bot is insane.
Meta appoints anti-DEI and anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor with a mandate to make the company's chat bot less 'woke.' www.advocate.com/news/meta-ro...
Meta appoints anti-DEI and anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor
Robby Starbuck has been appointed as an AI bias advisor at Meta with the goal of making the company's chat bot less "woke."
www.advocate.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Robby 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?
September 25, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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?
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I'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...
September 25, 2025 at 9:48 AM
I'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...
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The 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...
Pure bloodlines? Ancestral homelands? DNA science says no. — Harvard Gazette
Geneticist explains recent analyses made possible by tech advances show human history to be one of mixing, movement, displacement.
news.harvard.edu
September 25, 2025 at 10:13 AM
The 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?
September 23, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Where that Rapture at, tho?
No backbone, no profits. Ht @hystericalblkns.bsky.social
September 20, 2025 at 4:28 PM
No backbone, no profits. Ht @hystericalblkns.bsky.social
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By next spring, they'll be bragging about the passenger airliner they shot out of the sky because it was filled with "antifa commandos"
This appears to be the 3rd lethal US strike in the Caribbean.
Once again, the specific "terrorist" entity targeted is not identified.
No legal justification is offered for this premeditated killing.
President Trump is asserting a license to kill outside of the law. 1/n
Once again, the specific "terrorist" entity targeted is not identified.
No legal justification is offered for this premeditated killing.
President Trump is asserting a license to kill outside of the law. 1/n
September 20, 2025 at 12:38 AM
By next spring, they'll be bragging about the passenger airliner they shot out of the sky because it was filled with "antifa commandos"
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Christian 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.
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September 16, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Christian 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.