The art: Andy Warhol, Lavender Disaster, 1963.

The news: “Seeking execution drug, states cut legal corners,” by John Schwartz in the New York Times. (Warhol was interested in the violence states perpetrated on their own citizens and the corresponding breakdown in morals, ethics and legality.)

The source: Collection of The Menil Collection.

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