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.

 

 

Kim Conaty, curator of prints and drawings at the Whitney Museum, promoted to chief curator (The Art Newspaper)

Kim Conaty, curator of prints and drawings at the Whitney Museum, promoted to chief curator (The Art Newspaper)

Tamara de Lempicka makes her Broadway entrance (The Art Newspaper)

Tamara de Lempicka makes her Broadway entrance (The Art Newspaper)

Archaeologists in Brazil find petroglyphs alongside dinosaur tracks (The Art Newspaper)

Archaeologists in Brazil find petroglyphs alongside dinosaur tracks (The Art Newspaper)