Rough Sketch
Menachem WeckerHighbrow musings on culture for the hoi polloi.
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At the Met, grift of the Nile
In an apparent departure from its approach in the rest of the museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art's "Divine Egypt" overlooked slaves.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is selectively diligent about informing viewers when there is any conte...
Israeli museums in “complete isolation”
Hostage square outside Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Aug. 2025. My photo.
Running a museum in Israel since Oct. 7, 2023, has involved rushing to secure collections amid missile and rocket attacks and deafening silence from colleagues overseas if...
Charleston ghosts, an IBM designer
An IBM Selectric typewriter. Credit: Steve Lodefink/Creative Commons.
I am honored to have won a 2025 award of excellence from the Religion Communicators Council for my JNS story "With 275 years of ghosts, Charleston’s Jewish leaders bulli...
"And the Canaanite was then in the land"
On biblical literacy at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.
I returned recently from an eight-day trip to Israel, which involved more drama than I bargained for (airline losing my bag for 3.5 days, having to change hotels) but which also inclu...
Artificial intelligence at Kennedy Center
Refik Anadol’s artificial intelligence installation “Dvořák Dreams” at the Kennedy Center in Washington/My photo.
My article “Refik Anadol’s AI tribute to Czech composer Antonín Dvořák takes the stage in Washington, D.C.” ran in The Art Ne...
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