One reason I love art so much is that good work—like Sophia Al-Maria’s meditation on the Toyota Hilux at Art Basel Qatar—can lead you down the rabbit hole to something like this, an actual excerpt of an NYT story about post-9/11 import-export smuggling:

“Somewhat less laconic was Wade Hoyt, Toyota’s spokesman in New York, who put the best corporate spin on the situation this week. ‘It is not our proudest product placement,” he said. ‘But it shows that the Taliban are looking for the same qualities as any truck buyer: durability and reliability.’”