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.

 

 

Photographer Irving Penn ‘was very intense in a way that really made you pay attention’ (Washington Post Express)

Photographer Irving Penn ‘was very intense in a way that really made you pay attention’ (Washington Post Express)

Elena Goukassian
Visual Art
"CO-EXIST" At Otis Street Arts Project (Washington City Paper)

"CO-EXIST" At Otis Street Arts Project (Washington City Paper)
As a Swiss museum closes for renovations, some of its masterpieces head to the Phillips Collection (Washington Post Express)

As a Swiss museum closes for renovations, some of its masterpieces head to the Phillips Collection (Washington Post Express)