David Velasco
Editor
David Velasco is the Editor of Artforum, where he has worked since 2005. In his
current role, he leads all editorial initiatives for the brand, spearheading significant issues including “Art & Activism” (May 2019); “The Museum Now” (Summer and
September 2021); and the magazine’s sixtieth anniversary volume, “Love Works”
(September 2022).
David holds a bachelor’s degree in anthropology from Reed College (2000) and a master’s in humanities and social thought from New York University (2004). He is the editor of Modern Dance, a 2017 series of books on contemporary choreographers published by the Museum of Modern Art, New York. He has written authoritative texts on a wide range of artists, including Sarah Michelson, Adrian Piper, and David Wojnarowicz, and championed the careers of numerous artists and writers. In 2017, he helped the artist Nan Goldin establish the activist group P.A.I.N., chronicled in Laura Poitras’s Academy Award–nominated documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022).
David holds a bachelor’s degree in anthropology from Reed College (2000) and a master’s in humanities and social thought from New York University (2004). He is the editor of Modern Dance, a 2017 series of books on contemporary choreographers published by the Museum of Modern Art, New York. He has written authoritative texts on a wide range of artists, including Sarah Michelson, Adrian Piper, and David Wojnarowicz, and championed the careers of numerous artists and writers. In 2017, he helped the artist Nan Goldin establish the activist group P.A.I.N., chronicled in Laura Poitras’s Academy Award–nominated documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022).
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David Velasco on Anne Imhof’s Faust at the German Pavilion, Venice
Bruce Hainley and David Velasco talk about Tea for Three (2016)
