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.

 

 

John Feffer’s "Splinterlands" Is a Timely and Chilling Dystopian Novel (Washington City Paper)

John Feffer’s "Splinterlands" Is a Timely and Chilling Dystopian Novel (Washington City Paper)

Elena Goukassian
Books
Contemporary Art in Prisons (Sculpture magazine)

Contemporary Art in Prisons (Sculpture magazine)
At the National Museum of American History, artifacts tell the stories of Japanese-American internees (Washington Post Express)

At the National Museum of American History, artifacts tell the stories of Japanese-American internees (Washington Post Express)