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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.

 

 

Elena Goukassian Arts & History Writer
Delayed gratification for Miami’s new Museum of Sex (The Art Newspaper)
Dec 8

Dec 8 Delayed gratification for Miami’s new Museum of Sex (The Art Newspaper)

Elena Goukassian
Arts News, Visual Art
Dutch artist Anneke Eussen’s border-questioning sculpture acquired by the city of Miami Beach (The Art Newspaper)
Dec 8

Dec 8 Dutch artist Anneke Eussen’s border-questioning sculpture acquired by the city of Miami Beach (The Art Newspaper)

Elena Goukassian
Arts News, Visual Art
Sky's the limit in public art project in solidarity with Miami's drag queens (The Art Newspaper)
Dec 6

Dec 6 Sky's the limit in public art project in solidarity with Miami's drag queens (The Art Newspaper)

Elena Goukassian
Arts News, Visual Art
Nam June Paik exhibition at The Bass reveals his love affair with Miami Beach (The Art Newspaper)
Dec 6

Dec 6 Nam June Paik exhibition at The Bass reveals his love affair with Miami Beach (The Art Newspaper)

Elena Goukassian
Visual Art
Naked ambition: nudist group hopes to build a Miami Beach museum (The Art Newspaper)
Dec 6

Dec 6 Naked ambition: nudist group hopes to build a Miami Beach museum (The Art Newspaper)

Elena Goukassian
Arts News
Sacred Ethiopia, from Medieval icons to Haile Selassie’s cloak (The Art Newspaper)
Dec 1

Dec 1 Sacred Ethiopia, from Medieval icons to Haile Selassie’s cloak (The Art Newspaper)

Elena Goukassian
Visual Art, History
Mark Bradford wins $500,000 Getty Prize (The Art Newspaper)
Nov 30

Nov 30 Mark Bradford wins $500,000 Getty Prize (The Art Newspaper)

Elena Goukassian
Arts News, Visual Art
A theatrical new Calder exhibition staged in Seattle (The Art Newspaper)
Nov 20

Nov 20 A theatrical new Calder exhibition staged in Seattle (The Art Newspaper)

Elena Goukassian
Visual Art
Former Art Institute of Chicago payroll manager gets three years in prison for embezzling more than $2m (The Art Newspaper)
Nov 17

Nov 17 Former Art Institute of Chicago payroll manager gets three years in prison for embezzling more than $2m (The Art Newspaper)

Elena Goukassian
Arts News, Visual Art
Ann Philbin to retire after 25 years leading the Hammer Museum (The Art Newspaper)
Oct 20

Oct 20 Ann Philbin to retire after 25 years leading the Hammer Museum (The Art Newspaper)

Elena Goukassian
Arts News, Visual Art
Jasper Johns’s ‘mutual aid’ organisation for artists receives almost $9m from the estate of Los Angeles gallerist Margo Leavin (The Art Newspaper)
Oct 6

Oct 6 Jasper Johns’s ‘mutual aid’ organisation for artists receives almost $9m from the estate of Los Angeles gallerist Margo Leavin (The Art Newspaper)

Elena Goukassian
Arts News, Visual Art
New 3D documentary tells the multidimensional story of American artist H.C. Westermann (The Art Newspaper)
Oct 2

Oct 2 New 3D documentary tells the multidimensional story of American artist H.C. Westermann (The Art Newspaper)

Elena Goukassian
Film, Visual Art, History
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