Today, work is a widely debated theme: despite relevant criticalities due to the changes in the economic and political orders, it remains a basic component of our daily lives, a foundational aspect of human action as well as one of the main forms of social recognition. Across such background, the issue engages with a wide set of reflections concerning not only the representation and the conceptualization of work, but also the relationships between art and work: how does work define the artwork? How is the work of artists valued today? Contributions cover the fields of aesthetics, philosophy of art, ontology of art and work, legal and political philosophy, as well as literary theory.