Dazzled to death in Venice

Lisa Hilton adores a truly world-class experience

LIKE NEARLY EVERYTHING else in Venice, Charles Baudelaire’s apartment is available for rent on Airbnb. A lady named Valeria lets it for around £400 per night and though apparently it’s rather poky, it is very handy for the Peggy Guggenheim museum — whose permanent collection features Jackson Pollock’s The Moon Woman, inspired by Baudelaire’s poem, which describes “the fearful goddess, the fateful godmother, the poisonous nurse of all the moonstruck of the world”. Pollock was never quite as polite as he might have been to poor old Peggy. His picture popped into my head as I was trying to decide between tasting menus at the Nolinski Hotel’s newlyopened restaurant the Palais Royal. Six or nine courses? In the end I opted for restraint, meaning I didn’t get to try the…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, June 2024

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