Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 30/09/2026Monday 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 001
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 29/09/2026Coming 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 000
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 29/09/2026The 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 000
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 28/09/2026Next 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 000
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 28/09/2026🎧👂 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. 100
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 28/09/2026On 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 010
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 27/09/2026Fun 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. 000
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 27/09/2026We get the intellectuals we deserve. I went on BBC's 'Free Thinking' to talk about the problem with a bunch of.. intellectuals. buff.ly/91YIE6mbuff.lyBBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, IntellectualsMatthew Sweet discusses the role of intellectuals in public life. 000
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 26/09/2026This 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 000
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 26/09/2026This 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/LBatY1Sbuff.lyThis is what Britain looks like | Pierre d’Alancaisez | The Critic MagazineReaders 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… 000
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 25/09/2026There are some forms of vigilantism that I appreciate. (Although sad to have outlived Schiele by such a margin.) 000
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 25/09/2026Just 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 000
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 25/09/2026Going on Radio 4's 'Free Thinking' tonight to talk about.. intellectuals with.. intellectuals. 010
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 23/09/2026You can now read the first chapters of Liam Blackford's 'The Stud' — and preorder the ebook — on Apple Books! buff.ly/nzisvvZ 000
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 22/09/2026"Check your facts" — the politicisation of art has turned even cultural venue toilet graffiti incredibly dull. 000
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 22/09/2026notes 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 000
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 22/09/2026Coming 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 010
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 21/09/2026Death and Sex in Palestine: Hussein Aboubakr Mansour reflects on, among other things, Amir Naaman's essay in Inversion. buff.ly/PVufumm 000
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 21/09/2026Yet another disappointed journalist! The Quietus reviews the Adam Curtis Party Conference and, without seeing it, the 9/11 Watch Party. buff.ly/padluh5buff.lyBetween Facts and Feeling: The Adam Curtis Party Conference | The QuietusTariq Goddard attends the first ever Adam Curtis Party Conference and wonders what, if anything, the speakers have learned from its namesake. 000
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 21/09/2026notes 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 000
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 21/09/2026Amazon UK has INVERSION on sale buff.ly/6bLLbPJ If you've been holding out for some reason, grab a copy now! 000
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 20/09/2026notes 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 000
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 19/09/2026notes 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 000
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 18/09/2026"Britain has a case for culture". Well, does it? Hardly anybody believes that culture is useful other than instrumentally. And instrumentally, it doesn't work. And what is culture anyhow? buff.ly/e19mpFk 000
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 18/09/2026Ahead of the death symposium on 3 October, here's my suicide note, which I write every morning. buff.ly/lgTwBhXbuff.lyThe physical impossibility of death in the mind of someone living - Pierre d'AlancaisezWho would choose to live, to submit themselves to love, to this slower, torturous death? 010
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 18/09/2026Coming up at Verdurin: Trauma Fiction Against the rise of trauma culture, truth is no longer the currency of wrongs. A conversation on the literature of collective anguish with Jaspreet Singh-Boparai, Edward McLaren, and Joshua Knapp. 📅 13 October, 7pm 🎟️ buff.ly/4p65otN 000
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 17/09/2026Coming up 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/v8j4j4F 000
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 17/09/2026Verdurin is looking for help with organising our events, courses, and publications. Get in touch if you’d like to be involved. 000
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 17/09/2026"Adam Curtis fans held a conference in Boscombe. Outside, locals were living in one of his films." Fred Sculthorp reports on his trip to the seaside. buff.ly/8R3vxzwbuff.lyA murder in Adam Curtis LandAdam Curtis fans held a conference in Boscombe • Outside, locals were living in one of his films • Featuring a grisly death 000
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 14/09/2026Just announced: 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 000
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 12/09/2026No “last night at Verdurin” pics from the 9/11 Watch Party because nothing can surpass the greatest photo opportunity of the century. 000
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 11/09/20269/11 Watch Party, tonight at the Adam Curtis Party Conference in Bournemouth. buff.ly/HQMTFWmbournemouthecho.co.ukBournemouth art installation to recreate 9/11 live TV coverageA provocative art installation is set to transport audiences back to one of the most defining moments of the 21st century. 000
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 10/09/2026Recognition from my people at last. buff.ly/mHDYWH8 000
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 10/09/20269/11 Watch Party, Friday at the Adam Curtis Party Conference buff.ly/BpsYky2gbnews.com9/11: Artist defends controversial '9/11 watch party' art piece - 'There will be no spectacle here'Pierre d’Alancaisez has stood by the upcoming event in Bournemouth 000
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 10/09/2026Just announced : Trauma Fiction A conversation on the literature of collective anguish with Jaspreet Singh-Boparai, Edward McLaren, and Joshua Knapp. 📅 13 October, 7pm 🎟️ buff.ly/4p65otN 000
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 09/09/2026Friday at the Adam Curtis Party Conference in Bournemouth. buff.ly/ZwHd8ibdailymail.comImmersive '9/11 watch party' is planned in BournemouthGuests have been invited to leave their phones at the door and 'experience again the fear, tears, and paranoia of the live news channel analysis and raw footage of the disaster'. 000
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 09/09/2026Friday at the Adam Curtis Party Conference in Bournemouth. buff.ly/cHTU4NMbbc.co.ukBournemouth 11 September 'Watch Party' criticisedThose attending can watch the events of 2001 unfold in real time through archive TV broadcasts. 000
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 07/09/2026Studs, Straggots, & Sex-Work — Russel Walter interviews Liam Blackford ahead of the publication of "The Stud". buff.ly/NAjC823russellwalter.substack.comStuds, Straggots, & Sex-WorkEpisode 17 of the Chudstack Review 000
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 07/09/2026Friday in Bournemouth: 9/11 Watch Party 📅 11 September, 7pm 📍 Wild Boscombe, Bornemouth ℹ️ buff.ly/9xjvyIh Join us for the as-seen-on-TV event of the year, launching the first-ever Adam Curtis Party conference in Bournemouth. 000
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 05/09/2026Recent arrivals at the store. buff.ly/AonkVMr 000
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 04/09/2026📖 BOOK COVER REVEAL! The Hermitage by Quentin S. Crisp A novella on vocation, inheritance, and loss 📅 Out 1 December 2026 🛒 PRE-ORDER NOW 🔗 buff.ly/ohdVuhQ 010
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 03/09/2026Coming up at Verdurin: The Instant of My Death A symposium with Douglas Davies, Maya Pettersen, Jacob Phillips, David Roden, organised with Rose Lyddon. 📅 3 October, 2-6pm 🎟️ buff.ly/BLPZr8X 000
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 02/09/2026Last night at Verdurin, screening "Gabriel Over the White House" with Dominic Green and Kit Ramsay. Next in Nitrate Film: "The Blue Express", with Zinovy Zinik, on 6 October. 000
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 01/09/2026Psychoanalysis for the Fourth Industrial Revolution New course with Helen Rollins starts in three weeks! 📅 21 September - 2 November, 7-9pm 🙋 Four fortnightly sessions, in person at Verdurin 🎟️ £100/concessions 🔗 buff.ly/hokoUHQ 000
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 01/09/2026Tonight: Nitrate Film: Gabriel Over the White House with @DrDominicGreen 📅 1 September, 7pm 🎟️ verdur.in/event/gabrie... 010
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 31/08/2026Tomorrow at Verdurin: Nitrate Film: Gabriel Over the White House with Dominic Green 📅 1 September, 7pm 🎟️ verdur.in/event/gabrie... 010
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 28/08/2026New course staring next month: Psychoanalysis for the Fourth Industrial Revolution with Helen Rollins 📅 21 September - 2 November, 7-9pm 🙋 Four fortnightly sessions, in person at Verdurin 🎟️ £100/concessions 🔗 buff.ly/hokoUHQ 000
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 27/08/2026Next week at Verdurin: Nitrate Film: Gabriel Over the White House with Dominic Green 📅 1 September, 7pm 🎟️ buff.ly/VRsvSD6 Dominic Green is a historian, columnist, and critic. 010
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 26/08/2026The first review copies of Liam Blackford's THE STUD are here! Out on 18 November. Pre-order now! verdur.in/publication/... 000