Elena Goukassian is an arts & history Writer based in Brooklyn.

Elena writes about art, books, theater, film, music, architecture, and dance. She's also a huge fan of digging through archives and uncovering unusual histories.

Elena’s pieces have appeared in Aperture, Artsy, Hyperallergic, Lapham’s Quarterly (RIP), Los Angeles Review of Books, The Nation, and The Washington Post, among other publications.

On weekdays, you can find her writing and editing stories about museums, historical sites, and archaeology for The Art Newspaper.

 

 

The artists of the National Portrait Gallery’s ‘Face Value’ stood by portraiture in the age of abstract expressionism (Washington Post Express)

The artists of the National Portrait Gallery’s ‘Face Value’ stood by portraiture in the age of abstract expressionism (Washington Post Express)

Commissions: Florentijn Hofman, David Cerny, and David Breuer-Weil (Sculpture magazine)

Commissions: Florentijn Hofman, David Cerny, and David Breuer-Weil (Sculpture magazine)

Pointless Theatre brings puppets to ballet-dancing life in ‘Sleeping Beauty: A Puppet Ballet’ (Washington Post Express)

Pointless Theatre brings puppets to ballet-dancing life in ‘Sleeping Beauty: A Puppet Ballet’ (Washington Post Express)