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Rob Fields @robfields.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Saturday, May 30, 2026. Dumbo, Brooklyn 📸: Fujifilm X-Pro2 🔭: Voigtlander 35/1.2 #streetphotography

A south asian man in a bright green turban and a suit looks at his phone in Dumbo, Brooklyn. He’s lit from bright, golden hour light from the right side and casts a long shadow.

Rob Fields @robfields.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

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

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Rob Fields @robfields.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

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...

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Rob Fields @robfields.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

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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Rob Fields @robfields.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

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...

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Rob Fields @robfields.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

When I try to go to threads.net, I get sent to threads.com, where I get this error. Not that it matters to me. Just interesting to note, since it's been happening for the past few days.

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Rob Fields @robfields.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Worth reading by the ever-thoughtful @ykhong.bsky.social Oppressors Live in Constant Fear ykhong.substack.com/p/oppressors...

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Rob Fields @robfields.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Worthwhile read by @cmgreer.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/o...

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Rob Fields @robfields.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

In happier news: Tonight, @bridgettmdavis.bsky.social launches her new memoir (via @harpercollins.bsky.social ) at @greenlightbklyn.bsky.social with a conversation with @lindavillarosa.bsky.social www.greenlightbookstore.com/event/bridge...

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Rob Fields @robfields.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Seeing is fundamental in art collecting. "The other important thing that comes from seeing art regularly is that it helps u clarify what you like & what you don’t. And when it comes to collecting, it’s probably more important to be clear about the latter." iamrobfields.substack.com/p/how-to-col...

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Rob Fields @robfields.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

My latest on Substack: Recommended art exhibitions to check out; @bridgettmdavis.bsky.social's #NakedActs now available on BluRay, DVD and streaming; and take private art classes with Grace Lynne Haynes Read it here: open.substack.com/pub/iamrobfi...

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Rob Fields @robfields.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

My latest on Substack: How galleries can stop missing the mark when it comes to engaging new or potential collectors. Dear Galleries: Your Marketing Sucks. Respectfully. open.substack.com/pub/iamrobfi...

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Rob Fields @robfields.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Biographer @sethabramson.bsky.social, offers a sobering assessment of Elon Musk. And, to say it's a bit concerning, is an understatement. But forewarned is forearmed. substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Rob Fields @robfields.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Rest well, Lorraine O'Grady, 9/21/34 - 12/13/24, a creator who produced foundational pieces of the Black avant-garde conceptual art. Recommended: Doreen St. Felix's 2022 @newyorker.com profile: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-... Photo: Stefan Ruiz

The artist Lorraine O'Grady, dressed in all black, holding a wooden samurai sword, as if she's ready to strike.

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Rob Fields @robfields.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Well, folks were still spending money at the Christie's Old Masters auction...

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Rob Fields @robfields.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

An important read via historian @timothysnyder.bsky.social. The second grab--on how we, as citizens, need to adjust our attitudes--is on-point."Yes, some of them did vote to burn it all down. But if it all burns down, we burn too." Decapitation Strike (December) snyder.substack.com/p/decapitati...

A key graph from Snyder's post, in which he argues that the goal of these unqualified appointees for the incoming Trump administration is to destroy the American government.

This is critical: Snyder argues that we are at a pre-catastrophe moment, and we (on the progressive side) need to change our attitudes towards Trump voters. He says, "Yes, some of them did vote to burn it all down. But if it all burns down, we burn too."

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Rob Fields @robfields.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Afternoon, y'all! Check out my first long-form Substack post: Time for "artists to get to work"? What about the rest of us? Stop with the Morrison quote telling artists to get to work, especially if you have no plan to be in solidarity with them. open.substack.com/pub/iamrobfi...

A bunch of screengrabs of various IG posts of the Toni Morrison quote about "Now is the time for artists to get to work..."

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Rob Fields @robfields.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

A good day is when clients send photos of the work you helped them acquire. Here's Laurena Finéus's "Sightings: Quand Les Murs Tombent (When the walls fall)" (2023) framed and hung in its new home. #contemporaryart #painting #paintings #womenartists #artcollector #artadvisor #GoSeeArt

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Rob Fields @robfields.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Way to make a brotha feel old, Apple...

Screen grab of side-by-side albums of TLC's CrazySexyCool (30th anniversary edition) and MF Doom's MM..Food (20th Anniversary edition, as seen in Apple Music.

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Rob Fields @robfields.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I'm behind on posting about recent art acquisitions I facilitated on behalf of my collector clients. Case in point: Last week, I helped clients acquire Grace Lynne Haynes's "Sojourner Truth, Founding Mother", which was featured on the August 2020 cover of @newyorker.com.web.brid.gy

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Rob Fields @robfields.bsky.social · 14/11/2023

Sunday, November 12, 2023. Golden hour in Bed Stuy. 📸: Fujifilm X-Pro2 🔭: Fujinon 35/1.4 #photography #brooklyn #goldenhour #colorphotography #fujixseries

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Rob Fields @robfields.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

A coupl of recent shots taken during Sunday's Dumbo walkabout. Didn't know any of these folks. The brothas were chillin'on Water Street. For the 2nd shot, I just dug dude's coat. 📸: Fujifilm X-Pro2 🔭: 27/2.8

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Rob Fields @robfields.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

Finally here and I feel like Thomas Jefferson in "Hamilton": What'd I miss? Thanks, @waterman.bsky.social, for the invite!🙏

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