Elsien's Traveblogue

Naples, 7th June 2010
A quiet day today. My legs needed a rest after Saturday's long bay-walk and Sunday's climb up Capodimonte. I had my first telephone lesson with one of my three new e-coaching students at 10 and I wanted to rest up before tomorrow's planned trip to Pompei, so I didn't leave until 11 this morning.
I walked up to the Museum of Modern Art, not too long a walk. Enough Renaissance and Baroque for the moment, the Module I am doing right now is on contemporary(ish) art, female artists (of course – must have the woman angle in somehow) and there's a lot of academic in-fighting over the work of Cindy Sherman in the course material. There was only one Sherman photograph in the museum, but I found some interesting Anish Kapoor and a beautiful Gerhard Richter Cloud painting. Apart from a few women in a special exhibition on mainly pop-arty, comic-book-type art – and they were in a minority – I only found work by two other female artists: Rebecca Horn and Jenny Holzer. What does that say?