Links relevant to "Creative Work"

A piece in the New York Times about the perception of female vs male faculty that is an interesting parallel to Ukeles' writing about gender and labor:

"It suggests that people tend to think more highly of men than women in professional settings, praise men for the same things they criticize women for, and are more likely to focus on a woman’s appearance or personality and on a man’s skills and intelligence.

“When we use these reviews and evaluations to assess people, we need to keep in mind that the way people write them is really culturally conditioned," Mr. Schmidt said.

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Results for a search of "genius" on the interactive chart show students are likelier to apply this word to their male professors.

We've heard about these stereotypes before. Sheryl Sandberg, the Facebook executive who wrote “Lean In," has said that women are called bossy when they show the same behaviors that in men are called assertive. As Ms. Sandberg and Adam Grant, a business professor, wrote in a New York Times article today about men and women in the office, “A man who doesn’t help is ‘busy’; a woman is ‘selfish.’”  "

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Here's an important piece that resonates well with a lot of what Ross mentions in "Creativity and the Problem of Free Labor": Robert Reich on the new "Share the Scraps Economy".

Rebecca Solnit on the gentrification of San Francisco and the Google Bus.

The Onion on gentified neighborhood invaded by aristocrats.

To accompany the interview, Mierle Laderman Ukeles at the 2011 Creative Time Summit: Living as Form

one more Ukeles video to save for later:
Mierle Laderman Ukeles - Transfer and Exchange: Proposal for 1 Million Participants to Participate in an Artwork for Freshkills from Serpentine Galleries on Vimeo.