The art: Andy Warhol, A Boy for Meg, 1962.
The news: “The Scandalous Pleasure of Not Writing About Anthony Weiner,” by Annie Groer for The Atlantic.
The source: Collection of the National Gallery of Art. To be featured in the exhibition “Warhol: Headlines,” which opens at the NGA on Sept. 25.
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.
The art: Andy Warhol, Baseball (detail), 1962.
The news: Catch Major League Baseball’s official historian John Thorn on tomorrow’s Fresh Air.
The source: Flickr user JoetheLion and collection of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. (See the whole painting via that link.) Baseball was Warhol’s first photo-silkscreen canvas.
