The art: Edgar Degas, Race Horses, 1885-88.

The news: “The Kentucky Derby and the Slow Death of Horse Racing,” by Andrew Cohen for TheAtlantic.com.

The source: Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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