National Gallery

“National Gallery” quietly observes the docent talks, art classes, and musical performances programmed in the venerable museum.

In the 1920s, it was anthropologists at museums around the world who turned their attention to what was then called “native cultures.”

Don McCullin knows the people he photographs. His subjects are not the “unfortunate.” They are not anonymous “collateral damage,” nor the scattered debris of globalized bombardments. The subjects of McCullin’s photographs are living people whose misfortune it has been to live in hard times.