A Washington, D.C.-based journalist, Menachem Wecker has interviewed Mel Brooks about herring and has covered everything from the origins of museum taxidermies to Zoroastrian dating. His Playboy feature told of "Infiltrating the CIA's Secret Art Collection," and for a 2019 Washington Post Magazine feature, he looked at every object on view in the Smithsonian and the National Gallery in Washington to investigate how well museums flag which objects aren't real.