Grant Kester
@grantkester.bsky.social
Art historian writing on activist art and cultural practices, aesthetic theory and social change. Editor of FIELD: A Journal of Socially Engaged Art Criticism: http://www.field-journal.com. Writing at: https://ucsd.academia.edu/GrantKester
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Grant Kester
@grantkester.bsky.social
· Oct 21
I'm happy to announce the launch of the Fall 2025 issue of FIELD, with essays on censorship and dissent in academia and the art world, art in the midst of invasion in Ukraine and new reports on global authoritarianism. Thanks to all our contributors for a really exciting issue.
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field-journal.com
I'm happy to announce the launch of the Fall 2025 issue of FIELD, with essays on censorship and dissent in academia and the art world, art in the midst of invasion in Ukraine and new reports on global authoritarianism. Thanks to all our contributors for a really exciting issue.
field-journal.com
field-journal.com
October 21, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I'm happy to announce the launch of the Fall 2025 issue of FIELD, with essays on censorship and dissent in academia and the art world, art in the midst of invasion in Ukraine and new reports on global authoritarianism. Thanks to all our contributors for a really exciting issue.
field-journal.com
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Trickle down economics?
When is that shit suppose to trickle?
Reagan set up a reservoir and Trump stocked it.
When is that shit suppose to trickle?
Reagan set up a reservoir and Trump stocked it.
September 20, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Trickle down economics?
When is that shit suppose to trickle?
Reagan set up a reservoir and Trump stocked it.
When is that shit suppose to trickle?
Reagan set up a reservoir and Trump stocked it.
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I've seen this before. If you wonder why I call Trump and crew fascists. Read... this... list.
September 20, 2025 at 3:18 AM
I've seen this before. If you wonder why I call Trump and crew fascists. Read... this... list.
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The Trump administration just deleted a study by the National Institute of Justice that shows domestic terrorists are most often right-wing.
September 16, 2025 at 10:49 PM
The Trump administration just deleted a study by the National Institute of Justice that shows domestic terrorists are most often right-wing.
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Do not let the hypocrisy and lies of the GOP hi-jack the narrative. Stay united.
September 14, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Do not let the hypocrisy and lies of the GOP hi-jack the narrative. Stay united.
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Murdering MAGA Morons
I see a LOT more murders committed by politically motivated right-wing killers.
September 14, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Murdering MAGA Morons
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there’s not a republican alive who cares even slightly about the victims of domestic terror
if anything they’re righteously pissed that you keep telling them they can’t just beat and/or sell disobedient women and children like the patriarchs do in their favorite stone age human torture manual
if anything they’re righteously pissed that you keep telling them they can’t just beat and/or sell disobedient women and children like the patriarchs do in their favorite stone age human torture manual
September 8, 2025 at 6:01 PM
there’s not a republican alive who cares even slightly about the victims of domestic terror
if anything they’re righteously pissed that you keep telling them they can’t just beat and/or sell disobedient women and children like the patriarchs do in their favorite stone age human torture manual
if anything they’re righteously pissed that you keep telling them they can’t just beat and/or sell disobedient women and children like the patriarchs do in their favorite stone age human torture manual
She’s slow and burps a lot…
September 5, 2025 at 3:58 AM
She’s slow and burps a lot…
Between RFJ Jr. and this idiot we are truly living in the age of the moron... #climatechange
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Joe Rogan claims study shows Earth cooling – but report’s authors say he’s wrong
Scientists say ‘old-school denier nonsense’ isn’t helpful as podcaster repeatedly airs false claim on his show
www.theguardian.com
September 4, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Between RFJ Jr. and this idiot we are truly living in the age of the moron... #climatechange
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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If it works, use it. Just like guillotines #ICEout #ICE #AntiFa #AntiFascism #USPoli #USNews #News #US #Immigration #HumanRights
August 30, 2025 at 5:41 PM
If it works, use it. Just like guillotines #ICEout #ICE #AntiFa #AntiFascism #USPoli #USNews #News #US #Immigration #HumanRights
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“Among the projects funded by the Trump administration’s NEH is scholarly work on Christianity’s role in the American founding, a book arguing that DEI is incompatible with the Declaration of Independence, and positive reflections on American history.”
www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/investi...
www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/investi...
In historic shift, National Endowment for the Humanities funds academics with conservative ties
Among the projects funded by the Trump administration’s NEH is scholarly work on the role Christianity played in the American founding.
www.washingtonexaminer.com
August 27, 2025 at 11:25 PM
“Among the projects funded by the Trump administration’s NEH is scholarly work on Christianity’s role in the American founding, a book arguing that DEI is incompatible with the Declaration of Independence, and positive reflections on American history.”
www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/investi...
www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/investi...
Anticipatory obedience from the University of Chicago. Gutting their Arts and Humanities departments to please Trump won't work. Trump is going after every one of the Seven Mountains outlined by Christian Dominionism. The time to fight is now. utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/08/line...
Liner Note 37. Chicago's Gift to Trump
Hyde Park, Chicago on June 25, 2017 It’s great when you’re President of the United States and are unlawfully taking apart the national sy...
utotherescue.blogspot.com
August 25, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Anticipatory obedience from the University of Chicago. Gutting their Arts and Humanities departments to please Trump won't work. Trump is going after every one of the Seven Mountains outlined by Christian Dominionism. The time to fight is now. utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/08/line...
Trump’s performative military occupation of peaceful Democratic cities appears to have a two-fold purpose. First, to lower the bar for those conditions that justify military occupation, and to get the military leadership comfortable with their soldiers being deployed with no real pretext. 1/3
August 25, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Trump’s performative military occupation of peaceful Democratic cities appears to have a two-fold purpose. First, to lower the bar for those conditions that justify military occupation, and to get the military leadership comfortable with their soldiers being deployed with no real pretext. 1/3
Trump seeks to lubricate the chain of command, and acclimate the military to occupying American cities during peacetime. Second, he hopes to create a horizon of normalcy around the use of the military to police, and potentially fire on, American citizens among the media and the broader public. 2/3
August 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Trump seeks to lubricate the chain of command, and acclimate the military to occupying American cities during peacetime. Second, he hopes to create a horizon of normalcy around the use of the military to police, and potentially fire on, American citizens among the media and the broader public. 2/3
In this manner, the next time Trump and the Republican Party attempt to subvert the electoral process (during the midterms, for example) the mechanisms of military repression will already be well established to quell, and criminalize, any dissent. 3/3
August 25, 2025 at 7:58 PM
In this manner, the next time Trump and the Republican Party attempt to subvert the electoral process (during the midterms, for example) the mechanisms of military repression will already be well established to quell, and criminalize, any dissent. 3/3
Add National Guard to one more institution Trump will obliterate within the next few years.
75% of the National Guard troops deployed to Los Angeles said they will not re-enlist due to the deployment
davisvanguard.org/2025/07/trum...
davisvanguard.org/2025/07/trum...
August 15, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I want to express my gratitude to Emanuele Meschini at the University of Bologna for a wonderful interview in the Italian journal PianoB. We had a great conversation about engaged art and many other topics. #engagedart pianob.unibo.it/issue/view/1...
V. 9 N. 1 (2024): La partecipazione nelle pratiche artistiche: metodologia ed esperienze
| piano b. Arti e culture visive
pianob.unibo.it
June 28, 2025 at 4:09 AM
I want to express my gratitude to Emanuele Meschini at the University of Bologna for a wonderful interview in the Italian journal PianoB. We had a great conversation about engaged art and many other topics. #engagedart pianob.unibo.it/issue/view/1...
I'm delighted to announce the launch of the Spring 2025 issue of FIELD: A Journal of Socially Engaged Art Criticism, featuring Eva Marxen, David Gutiérrez Castañeda, Emanuele Rinaldo Meschini, Kevin Ryan, Noelle English, Theodore A. Harris, and three new "Global Reports".
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June 17, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I'm delighted to announce the launch of the Spring 2025 issue of FIELD: A Journal of Socially Engaged Art Criticism, featuring Eva Marxen, David Gutiérrez Castañeda, Emanuele Rinaldo Meschini, Kevin Ryan, Noelle English, Theodore A. Harris, and three new "Global Reports".
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