Links: Our historical moment, Friedlander in NM, Women + Arts

• Op-Ed Columnist - Bob Herbert - Savor the Moment for a Historic Campaign - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com
  The fact that Barack Obama is the presumptive nominee... and that the two finalists for that prize were a black man and a white woman, are historical events of the highest importance. We should not allow ourselves to overlook the wonder of this moment.
  (tags: politics race women history)
• Lee Friedlander: New Mexico
  Friedlander has been visiting Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and northern New Mexico since the late 60s. This new volume of work presents a sequence of images made during his travels in these regions between 1995 and the present
  (tags: books photography newmexico b&w)
• Thinking outside the box | Art & Architecture | guardian.co.uk Arts
  To a degree, long hours, low pay and the work-life imbalance are not gender-specific problems. Depressingly, the problem that seems to be unique to women is their own self-doubt. This sounds perilously like a stereotype-ridden generalisation..
  (tags: women gender work arts culture)