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.

 

 

American Museum of Natural History curator detained at Istanbul airport with 1,500 spider and scorpion samples (The Art Newspaper)

American Museum of Natural History curator detained at Istanbul airport with 1,500 spider and scorpion samples (The Art Newspaper)

Chile returns 400-million-year-old fossils to Morocco (The Art Newspaper)

Chile returns 400-million-year-old fossils to Morocco (The Art Newspaper)

Six galleries turning a school in upstate New York into a collective art space (The Art Newspaper)

Six galleries turning a school in upstate New York into a collective art space (The Art Newspaper)