The modern art museum is across the river in a suburb bounded on three sides by the river. I got here by underground from the main station after a leisurely walk which took me past the main synagogue. Cz keyboards interchange zs and ys which migh account for some odd spelling.

The museum is a large building in the European architectural style known as Rationalism - a bit like Minimalism and from roughlz the same period. The walk from the nearest station takes you through a Le Caryesque urban landscape -flyovers, graffiti, 60s blocks, a railway terminus with a long dark wooden shed with ventilation but no windows.

The look of the place inside is worth the entrance fee - 8 floors of geometrical purity round a large central oblong well. The old regime has not completel�y disappeared - there are no maps and the burly women attendants shout at you when you go through the wrong door. Prague was Kafka's city. Perhaps this combination of monumental geometry and official aggression is special and needs to be preseved as a global cultural inheritance. I love it - such change from the randomly chaotic abuse masquerading as service, consumer friendly tokenism and insincere apologies you get from privatised enterprise in the UK.

Some art experiences have a cumulative effect that leaves most of the nervous system tingling. (The sensation lasted overnight when I sat on the line of the PA speakers for Reich's Music for 18 Musicians introduced by the composer himself.) A few points by way of illustration:

Kniyak.s Destroyed Music ... symmetrically arranged vynil with each disc subjet to more or less artistic deformation ... mid 60s

Brazda..Fathers Portrait - just the face with the wrinkles rendered in the utmost detail in grey tones. The son's image seen in the pupils.

Peranek planned a Bata store in Prague in the 1930s in International Modern style with organic plastic shapes randomly strewn over the facade with neon tubes flashing inside so the plastic forms seemed to move

Experimental films from the 20s and 30s like Joyce on celluloid in their treatment of the oddness of the everyday

Podhrazskz paints his dog seated in a hole under a rock staring at the viewer aware of the ironz of his situation. The dog is called Flip

A kinetic work by Dobes from 1966 - Red Motion in Space. Three parabolic mirroirs arranged in a vertical line rotating / one out of step with the other two. A red shape is fixed on a diameter of each. Depending on where you stand the red shape appears and disappears in relation to your own distorted image.

Fluxus like works from the same period - a set of instructions that involved burning a poster in the street. Photographs of the performance and the astonished look on the faces of the passing citizens of Prague (waiting for the secret police to show? .

A series of works from the 70s by Micoch rather like Richard Long:

* I I climbed alone in the wind and fog to the summit of Mount Kotel. On the way I took photographs. ...... one such is displayed,

* After three days and nights without sleep I spent the fourth night in a tree.... photo of man asleep in a small tree.

* Employing the usual fruit growing techniques with the help of an assistant I grafted a twig from a bush onto �mz arm.........photo of the two men at work on the grafting.

Also a great series of photos of a happening where a plane flies over and drops white streamers. Some are collected together and a team of flute players perform round the pile of streamers. A picnic follows. It reminded of the Shinto mid-summer festival with flutes and white streamers in central Tokyo...

There are lots of other novel keyboard symbols here: � � � � � � � � � � are a few of them. .

Looked at 18 and 19C Cz art next - plus a good collection of French highlights - one study by Rodin of a flying female figure - he may call it art by I call it filth - ditto a single Klimt of a bundle of lovelies under an arty duvet. A great set of Picasso analytical cubist works from 1910-16. I bought a book in the shop on 20C architectural highlights in Prague. Another day well spend on official business.