Pat gets a cloistered no-prize for bringing us this detailed look at a new exhibit hosted by the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art:

"Prague: The Crown of Bohemia, 1347-1437" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is an adventure. It's one of those shows you go to not at all sure what you're in for, and when you find out, you're floored, because it's so beautiful, and so familiar, and so strange.

The title sets out the exhibition's coordinates. Prague puts us in Central Europe; the dates put us in the Middle Ages, specifically the High Gothic period. And that's where the adventure starts, because we can see at a glance that Gothic in Bohemia is not the Gothic we find elsewhere.