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.

 

 

How to Make Sure You’re Not Buying a Forgery (Artsy)

How to Make Sure You’re Not Buying a Forgery (Artsy)

Who Really Was Roy Cohn? (The Nation)

Who Really Was Roy Cohn? (The Nation)

Failing to Find the Language of Pain: On Gayle Brandeis’s “Many Restless Concerns” (Los Angeles Review of Books)

Failing to Find the Language of Pain: On Gayle Brandeis’s “Many Restless Concerns” (Los Angeles Review of Books)