Archive: National Portrait Gallery

• WCP: Worker Portraits: Contradictions and Contingencies

  Art depicting workers offers contradicting meanings of work in both capturing the dignity and pride of workers but also representing the struggles and hardships of labor. In Working-Class Perspectives, Sherry Linkon reflects on how these tensions manifest in a new exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery and argues that the exhibit neglects the precarious nature of work today.

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Art, John Russo, National Portrait Gallery, Precariat, Precarity, Sherry Linkon, WCP, Working-Class Art, Working-Class Perspectives