David Velasco

David Velasco (born October 23, 1978) is an American writer and editor. He was the editor-in-chief of the art magazine Artforum from 2017 to 2023. 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 texts on a number of artists, including Sarah Michelson, Adrian Piper, and David Wojnarowicz. In 2017, he helped photographer and activist 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).