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Meghan Forbes

Contributor

Meghan Forbes

Meghan Forbes is C-MAP Fellow for Central and Eastern Europe at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Her reviews, essays, and translations have appeared in Words Without Borders, Hyperallergic, Literary Hub, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among other publications. She holds a PhD from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Articles by Meghan Forbes

Bedřich Václavek’s “New Art” in Uncertain Times

By Meghan Forbes

Meghan Forbes’s translation of Bedřich Václavek’s “New Art” appears in the November 2016 feature of Words without Borders: “Interwar Avant-Garde Poetry.”In…

The Magazine as Manifesto

By Meghan Forbes

The artistic production of a group of leftist artists, poets, and editors in Central Europe in the interwar period reflects an optimism for a “new Europe.”

New Art

By Bedřich Václavek

Václavek attempts to outline the ways in which developments in engineering and socialized labor practices are integral models for contemporary art practice.

Translated from Czech by Meghan Forbes

Travel by Train

By Karel Schulz

thus it is proven once again that / luck is a swallow on a telegraph wire

Translated from Czech by Meghan Forbes