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
