Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin
@verdur.in
https://verdur.in - cultural project and event space, concept store, and soon publisher in London.
https://petitpoi.net - art criticism and writing by Pierre d'Alancaisez.
https://petitpoi.net - art criticism and writing by Pierre d'Alancaisez.
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INVERSION, Gay Life After the Homosexual
Out now in paperback and eBook.
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With Blake Smith, Roger Lancaster, David Moulton, Stephen Adubato, Amir Naaman, Ran Heilbrunn, Pierre d’Alancaisez, Travis Jeppesen, @oliverjdavis.bsky.social, Yotam Feldman, Marcas Lancaster.
Out now in paperback and eBook.
Order at buff.ly/jbCZT9e
With Blake Smith, Roger Lancaster, David Moulton, Stephen Adubato, Amir Naaman, Ran Heilbrunn, Pierre d’Alancaisez, Travis Jeppesen, @oliverjdavis.bsky.social, Yotam Feldman, Marcas Lancaster.
Monday at Verdurin: Nitrate Film: The Blue Express
Screening and discussion with Zinovy Zinik
If rolling or film stock can collapse social strata, could they also couple nations and cultures in ideology?
📅 5 October, 7pm
🎟️ buff.ly/zMl5kst
Screening and discussion with Zinovy Zinik
If rolling or film stock can collapse social strata, could they also couple nations and cultures in ideology?
📅 5 October, 7pm
🎟️ buff.ly/zMl5kst
October 3, 2026 at 11:01 AM
Monday at Verdurin: Nitrate Film: The Blue Express
Screening and discussion with Zinovy Zinik
If rolling or film stock can collapse social strata, could they also couple nations and cultures in ideology?
📅 5 October, 7pm
🎟️ buff.ly/zMl5kst
Screening and discussion with Zinovy Zinik
If rolling or film stock can collapse social strata, could they also couple nations and cultures in ideology?
📅 5 October, 7pm
🎟️ buff.ly/zMl5kst
Monday in Nitrate Film: The Blue Express
Screening and discussion with Zinovy Zinik
If rolling or film stock can collapse social strata, could they also couple nations and cultures in ideology?
📅 5 October, 7pm
🎟️ buff.ly/zMl5kst
Screening and discussion with Zinovy Zinik
If rolling or film stock can collapse social strata, could they also couple nations and cultures in ideology?
📅 5 October, 7pm
🎟️ buff.ly/zMl5kst
October 2, 2026 at 9:01 AM
Monday in Nitrate Film: The Blue Express
Screening and discussion with Zinovy Zinik
If rolling or film stock can collapse social strata, could they also couple nations and cultures in ideology?
📅 5 October, 7pm
🎟️ buff.ly/zMl5kst
Screening and discussion with Zinovy Zinik
If rolling or film stock can collapse social strata, could they also couple nations and cultures in ideology?
📅 5 October, 7pm
🎟️ buff.ly/zMl5kst
Monday in Nitrate Film: The Blue Express
Screening and discussion with Zinovy Zinik
If rolling or film stock can collapse social strata, could they also couple nations and cultures in ideology?
📅 5 October, 7pm
🎟️ buff.ly/zMl5kst
Screening and discussion with Zinovy Zinik
If rolling or film stock can collapse social strata, could they also couple nations and cultures in ideology?
📅 5 October, 7pm
🎟️ buff.ly/zMl5kst
September 30, 2026 at 10:01 AM
Monday in Nitrate Film: The Blue Express
Screening and discussion with Zinovy Zinik
If rolling or film stock can collapse social strata, could they also couple nations and cultures in ideology?
📅 5 October, 7pm
🎟️ buff.ly/zMl5kst
Screening and discussion with Zinovy Zinik
If rolling or film stock can collapse social strata, could they also couple nations and cultures in ideology?
📅 5 October, 7pm
🎟️ buff.ly/zMl5kst
Coming up at Verdurin: Trauma Fiction
A conversation on the literature of collective anguish with Jaspreet Singh-Boparai, Edward McLaren, and Joshua Knapp.
and Joshua Knapp.
📅 13 October, 7pm
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A conversation on the literature of collective anguish with Jaspreet Singh-Boparai, Edward McLaren, and Joshua Knapp.
and Joshua Knapp.
📅 13 October, 7pm
🎟️ buff.ly/rWC6h3y
September 29, 2026 at 12:01 PM
Coming up at Verdurin: Trauma Fiction
A conversation on the literature of collective anguish with Jaspreet Singh-Boparai, Edward McLaren, and Joshua Knapp.
and Joshua Knapp.
📅 13 October, 7pm
🎟️ buff.ly/rWC6h3y
A conversation on the literature of collective anguish with Jaspreet Singh-Boparai, Edward McLaren, and Joshua Knapp.
and Joshua Knapp.
📅 13 October, 7pm
🎟️ buff.ly/rWC6h3y
The full programme for 'The Instant of My Death' — a symposium with Maya Pettersen, Jacob Phillips, David Roden, organised with Rose Lyddon — is now online.
(Sold out, alas.)
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(Sold out, alas.)
🎟️ buff.ly/RKDm63f
September 29, 2026 at 9:00 AM
The full programme for 'The Instant of My Death' — a symposium with Maya Pettersen, Jacob Phillips, David Roden, organised with Rose Lyddon — is now online.
(Sold out, alas.)
🎟️ buff.ly/RKDm63f
(Sold out, alas.)
🎟️ buff.ly/RKDm63f
Next Monday: Nitrate Film: The Blue Express
Screening and discussion with Zinovy Zinik
If rolling or film stock can collapse social strata, could they also couple nations and cultures in ideology?
📅 5 October, 7pm
🎟️ buff.ly/zMl5kst
Screening and discussion with Zinovy Zinik
If rolling or film stock can collapse social strata, could they also couple nations and cultures in ideology?
📅 5 October, 7pm
🎟️ buff.ly/zMl5kst
September 28, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Next Monday: Nitrate Film: The Blue Express
Screening and discussion with Zinovy Zinik
If rolling or film stock can collapse social strata, could they also couple nations and cultures in ideology?
📅 5 October, 7pm
🎟️ buff.ly/zMl5kst
Screening and discussion with Zinovy Zinik
If rolling or film stock can collapse social strata, could they also couple nations and cultures in ideology?
📅 5 October, 7pm
🎟️ buff.ly/zMl5kst
🎧👂 Coming soon: Verdurin event podcast!
Thanks to the great work by John-Robin Bold, we will soon be able to bring you some of the highlights from our event archive in the form of a podcast.
Thanks to the great work by John-Robin Bold, we will soon be able to bring you some of the highlights from our event archive in the form of a podcast.
September 28, 2026 at 12:00 PM
🎧👂 Coming soon: Verdurin event podcast!
Thanks to the great work by John-Robin Bold, we will soon be able to bring you some of the highlights from our event archive in the form of a podcast.
Thanks to the great work by John-Robin Bold, we will soon be able to bring you some of the highlights from our event archive in the form of a podcast.
On doormats today and on news stands soon, the October issue of The Critic, with me on "Middle-Eastern contemporary art" — a compound noun that is the opposite of what it seems — and the great refusal, or resignations, of artists too wary to keep making art.
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September 28, 2026 at 9:00 AM
On doormats today and on news stands soon, the October issue of The Critic, with me on "Middle-Eastern contemporary art" — a compound noun that is the opposite of what it seems — and the great refusal, or resignations, of artists too wary to keep making art.
buff.ly/NFY0lTu
buff.ly/NFY0lTu
Fun fact from the Turner Prize press junket on Thursday: more than half of my esteemed colleagues attending didn't bother watching Simon Barclay's video 'The Ruin' for more than a few minutes (the work is much longer). Because lunch was being served.
September 27, 2026 at 11:41 AM
Fun fact from the Turner Prize press junket on Thursday: more than half of my esteemed colleagues attending didn't bother watching Simon Barclay's video 'The Ruin' for more than a few minutes (the work is much longer). Because lunch was being served.
We get the intellectuals we deserve. I went on BBC's 'Free Thinking' to talk about the problem with a bunch of.. intellectuals.
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BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Intellectuals
Matthew Sweet discusses the role of intellectuals in public life.
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September 27, 2026 at 10:00 AM
We get the intellectuals we deserve. I went on BBC's 'Free Thinking' to talk about the problem with a bunch of.. intellectuals.
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This kind of "irony" is evident in the Prize selection itself, at the very level of aesthetics. Maybe art is the world, after all.
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September 26, 2026 at 3:00 PM
This kind of "irony" is evident in the Prize selection itself, at the very level of aesthetics. Maybe art is the world, after all.
buff.ly/LBatY1S
buff.ly/LBatY1S
This year’s Turner Prize catches contemporary art distracted, pulling in multiple directions at once, and blindly misinterpreting the images it makes. In this, it is more “Britain in 2026” than Britain cares to admit.
I reviewed the exhibition for The Critic.
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I reviewed the exhibition for The Critic.
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This is what Britain looks like | Pierre d’Alancaisez | The Critic Magazine
Readers of this magazine are not likely to look to contemporary art to find the pulse of Britain. Even less so, perhaps, to the Turner Prize, which in recent editions turned inward and has barely…
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September 26, 2026 at 10:00 AM
This year’s Turner Prize catches contemporary art distracted, pulling in multiple directions at once, and blindly misinterpreting the images it makes. In this, it is more “Britain in 2026” than Britain cares to admit.
I reviewed the exhibition for The Critic.
buff.ly/LBatY1S
I reviewed the exhibition for The Critic.
buff.ly/LBatY1S
There are some forms of vigilantism that I appreciate.
(Although sad to have outlived Schiele by such a margin.)
(Although sad to have outlived Schiele by such a margin.)
September 25, 2026 at 2:00 PM
There are some forms of vigilantism that I appreciate.
(Although sad to have outlived Schiele by such a margin.)
(Although sad to have outlived Schiele by such a margin.)
Just announced: Disenchantment, or the Liturgy of Lack
A discussion on religious experience with Peter Rollins.
What if the embrace of alienation gave rise to religious conversion?
📅 28 October, 7pm
📍 Verdurin, London
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A discussion on religious experience with Peter Rollins.
What if the embrace of alienation gave rise to religious conversion?
📅 28 October, 7pm
📍 Verdurin, London
🎟️ buff.ly/gPB42Tk
September 25, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Just announced: Disenchantment, or the Liturgy of Lack
A discussion on religious experience with Peter Rollins.
What if the embrace of alienation gave rise to religious conversion?
📅 28 October, 7pm
📍 Verdurin, London
🎟️ buff.ly/gPB42Tk
A discussion on religious experience with Peter Rollins.
What if the embrace of alienation gave rise to religious conversion?
📅 28 October, 7pm
📍 Verdurin, London
🎟️ buff.ly/gPB42Tk
Going on Radio 4's 'Free Thinking' tonight to talk about.. intellectuals with.. intellectuals.
September 25, 2026 at 11:15 AM
Going on Radio 4's 'Free Thinking' tonight to talk about.. intellectuals with.. intellectuals.
You can now read the first chapters of Liam Blackford's 'The Stud' — and preorder the ebook — on Apple Books!
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September 23, 2026 at 11:34 AM
You can now read the first chapters of Liam Blackford's 'The Stud' — and preorder the ebook — on Apple Books!
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buff.ly/nzisvvZ
"Check your facts" — the politicisation of art has turned even cultural venue toilet graffiti incredibly dull.
September 22, 2026 at 12:00 PM
"Check your facts" — the politicisation of art has turned even cultural venue toilet graffiti incredibly dull.
notes and notices: Emma Reyes at White Cube ★★★☆☆
The paintings of the late Colombian Emma Reyes — abstracts of lines, spots, and colours that only occasionally amount to nature or the human...
Read on: buff.ly/8QN1h49
The paintings of the late Colombian Emma Reyes — abstracts of lines, spots, and colours that only occasionally amount to nature or the human...
Read on: buff.ly/8QN1h49
September 22, 2026 at 11:27 AM
notes and notices: Emma Reyes at White Cube ★★★☆☆
The paintings of the late Colombian Emma Reyes — abstracts of lines, spots, and colours that only occasionally amount to nature or the human...
Read on: buff.ly/8QN1h49
The paintings of the late Colombian Emma Reyes — abstracts of lines, spots, and colours that only occasionally amount to nature or the human...
Read on: buff.ly/8QN1h49
Coming up in Nitrate Film: The Blue Express
Screening and discussion with Zinovy Zinik
If rolling or film stock can collapse social strata, could they also couple nations and cultures in ideology?
📅 5 October, 7pm
🎟️ buff.ly/v8j4j4F
Screening and discussion with Zinovy Zinik
If rolling or film stock can collapse social strata, could they also couple nations and cultures in ideology?
📅 5 October, 7pm
🎟️ buff.ly/v8j4j4F
September 22, 2026 at 9:01 AM
Coming up in Nitrate Film: The Blue Express
Screening and discussion with Zinovy Zinik
If rolling or film stock can collapse social strata, could they also couple nations and cultures in ideology?
📅 5 October, 7pm
🎟️ buff.ly/v8j4j4F
Screening and discussion with Zinovy Zinik
If rolling or film stock can collapse social strata, could they also couple nations and cultures in ideology?
📅 5 October, 7pm
🎟️ buff.ly/v8j4j4F
Death and Sex in Palestine: Hussein Aboubakr Mansour reflects on, among other things, Amir Naaman's essay in Inversion.
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September 21, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Death and Sex in Palestine: Hussein Aboubakr Mansour reflects on, among other things, Amir Naaman's essay in Inversion.
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Yet another disappointed journalist!
The Quietus reviews the Adam Curtis Party Conference and, without seeing it, the 9/11 Watch Party.
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The Quietus reviews the Adam Curtis Party Conference and, without seeing it, the 9/11 Watch Party.
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Between Facts and Feeling: The Adam Curtis Party Conference | The Quietus
Tariq Goddard attends the first ever Adam Curtis Party Conference and wonders what, if anything, the speakers have learned from its namesake.
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September 21, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Yet another disappointed journalist!
The Quietus reviews the Adam Curtis Party Conference and, without seeing it, the 9/11 Watch Party.
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The Quietus reviews the Adam Curtis Party Conference and, without seeing it, the 9/11 Watch Party.
buff.ly/padluh5
notes and notices: John Tweddle, Michael Landy: Market Day at The Mayor Gallery ★★★☆☆
The art market is a perversion of trade. That today’s artists routinely oppose “capitalism” but crave a moral carve-out for the circulation of their work only proves this...
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The art market is a perversion of trade. That today’s artists routinely oppose “capitalism” but crave a moral carve-out for the circulation of their work only proves this...
Read on: buff.ly/oJxCYtE
September 21, 2026 at 1:04 PM
notes and notices: John Tweddle, Michael Landy: Market Day at The Mayor Gallery ★★★☆☆
The art market is a perversion of trade. That today’s artists routinely oppose “capitalism” but crave a moral carve-out for the circulation of their work only proves this...
Read on: buff.ly/oJxCYtE
The art market is a perversion of trade. That today’s artists routinely oppose “capitalism” but crave a moral carve-out for the circulation of their work only proves this...
Read on: buff.ly/oJxCYtE
Amazon UK has INVERSION on sale
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If you've been holding out for some reason, grab a copy now!
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If you've been holding out for some reason, grab a copy now!
September 21, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Amazon UK has INVERSION on sale
buff.ly/6bLLbPJ
If you've been holding out for some reason, grab a copy now!
buff.ly/6bLLbPJ
If you've been holding out for some reason, grab a copy now!
notes and notices: The Studio of Felicity Powell at Richard Saltoun ★★☆☆☆
To posthumously make myth of an artist risks bathos. Powell, who died in 2015, left just enough worthwhile sculpture and drawing behind to assemble a minor museum display...
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To posthumously make myth of an artist risks bathos. Powell, who died in 2015, left just enough worthwhile sculpture and drawing behind to assemble a minor museum display...
Read on: buff.ly/fSRpBX8
September 20, 2026 at 9:00 AM
notes and notices: The Studio of Felicity Powell at Richard Saltoun ★★☆☆☆
To posthumously make myth of an artist risks bathos. Powell, who died in 2015, left just enough worthwhile sculpture and drawing behind to assemble a minor museum display...
Read on: buff.ly/fSRpBX8
To posthumously make myth of an artist risks bathos. Powell, who died in 2015, left just enough worthwhile sculpture and drawing behind to assemble a minor museum display...
Read on: buff.ly/fSRpBX8
notes and notices: Quentin James McCaffrey at Alison Jacques ★★☆☆☆
McCaffrey’s paintings of imagined European interiors decorated with imagined European art are the perfect postcards of an American mind for whom everything is ‘content’...
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McCaffrey’s paintings of imagined European interiors decorated with imagined European art are the perfect postcards of an American mind for whom everything is ‘content’...
Read on: buff.ly/HZEti59
September 19, 2026 at 11:00 AM
notes and notices: Quentin James McCaffrey at Alison Jacques ★★☆☆☆
McCaffrey’s paintings of imagined European interiors decorated with imagined European art are the perfect postcards of an American mind for whom everything is ‘content’...
Read on: buff.ly/HZEti59
McCaffrey’s paintings of imagined European interiors decorated with imagined European art are the perfect postcards of an American mind for whom everything is ‘content’...
Read on: buff.ly/HZEti59