The art: Shahzia Sikander, Entangled from the portfolio No Parking Anytime, 2001.

The news: “The Double Game: The unintended consequences of American funding in Pakistan,” by Lawrence Wright in The New Yorker and “Our Strange Dance with Pakistan,” by Elizabeth Rubin in The New York Review of Books’ blog, NYRblog.

The source: Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Print portfolio produced by Crown Point Press.