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.
Coming up at Verdurin: I, Internet
Making Art in the Machine
📅 31 January, 2-6pm
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With contributions by Helen Rollins, John-Robin Bold, and Tony D Sampson, plus screenings of works by Chris Boyd, Eva and Franco Mattes,, Neue Deutsche Kunst, et al.
🎬 Renée, Marginalia, 2025
Making Art in the Machine
📅 31 January, 2-6pm
🎟️ buff.ly/KSqNMVo
With contributions by Helen Rollins, John-Robin Bold, and Tony D Sampson, plus screenings of works by Chris Boyd, Eva and Franco Mattes,, Neue Deutsche Kunst, et al.
🎬 Renée, Marginalia, 2025
January 16, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Coming up at Verdurin: I, Internet
Making Art in the Machine
📅 31 January, 2-6pm
🎟️ buff.ly/KSqNMVo
With contributions by Helen Rollins, John-Robin Bold, and Tony D Sampson, plus screenings of works by Chris Boyd, Eva and Franco Mattes,, Neue Deutsche Kunst, et al.
🎬 Renée, Marginalia, 2025
Making Art in the Machine
📅 31 January, 2-6pm
🎟️ buff.ly/KSqNMVo
With contributions by Helen Rollins, John-Robin Bold, and Tony D Sampson, plus screenings of works by Chris Boyd, Eva and Franco Mattes,, Neue Deutsche Kunst, et al.
🎬 Renée, Marginalia, 2025
Until artists start making better art, my monthly sub is going to these three.
January 14, 2026 at 7:03 PM
Until artists start making better art, my monthly sub is going to these three.
Went to the 9am press preview at the National Gallery in the hope that - since art is suffering - the work would be good because I’d got up so early.
Turns out that’s not how this works.
Turns out that’s not how this works.
January 14, 2026 at 7:02 PM
Went to the 9am press preview at the National Gallery in the hope that - since art is suffering - the work would be good because I’d got up so early.
Turns out that’s not how this works.
Turns out that’s not how this works.
As our consciousness evolves in networks and on platforms, our subjectivity is changing in profound yet unexpected ways. If temporal discontinuity is a feature of our post-internet state of mind, this certainly holds true for the history of internet-inspired art itself.
📽️ Neue Deutsche Kunst
📽️ Neue Deutsche Kunst
January 14, 2026 at 11:02 AM
As our consciousness evolves in networks and on platforms, our subjectivity is changing in profound yet unexpected ways. If temporal discontinuity is a feature of our post-internet state of mind, this certainly holds true for the history of internet-inspired art itself.
📽️ Neue Deutsche Kunst
📽️ Neue Deutsche Kunst
"Art is no longer a sure route to relief. Indeed, it is often the cause of anguish."
Sex, drugs, and art. Nan Goldin's 'Ballad of Sexual Dependency' opens at Gagosian tonight.
I wrote about this seminal work a couple of years ago for The Critic when it received cinematic treatment.
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Sex, drugs, and art. Nan Goldin's 'Ballad of Sexual Dependency' opens at Gagosian tonight.
I wrote about this seminal work a couple of years ago for The Critic when it received cinematic treatment.
buff.ly/yFeGdeY
Addicted in art | Pierre d’Alancaisez | The Critic Magazine
The American photographer Nan Goldin has not had an easy life. Growing up in 1950s suburbia, she was a witness to her sister Barbara’s severe mental health struggle, her brutal institutionalisation…
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January 13, 2026 at 4:02 PM
"Art is no longer a sure route to relief. Indeed, it is often the cause of anguish."
Sex, drugs, and art. Nan Goldin's 'Ballad of Sexual Dependency' opens at Gagosian tonight.
I wrote about this seminal work a couple of years ago for The Critic when it received cinematic treatment.
buff.ly/yFeGdeY
Sex, drugs, and art. Nan Goldin's 'Ballad of Sexual Dependency' opens at Gagosian tonight.
I wrote about this seminal work a couple of years ago for The Critic when it received cinematic treatment.
buff.ly/yFeGdeY
What does it mean to make art in the machine?
As our consciousness evolves in networks and on platforms, our subjectivity is changing in profound yet unexpected ways. If temporal discontinuity is a feature of our post-internet state of mind, /
As our consciousness evolves in networks and on platforms, our subjectivity is changing in profound yet unexpected ways. If temporal discontinuity is a feature of our post-internet state of mind, /
January 12, 2026 at 12:06 PM
What does it mean to make art in the machine?
As our consciousness evolves in networks and on platforms, our subjectivity is changing in profound yet unexpected ways. If temporal discontinuity is a feature of our post-internet state of mind, /
As our consciousness evolves in networks and on platforms, our subjectivity is changing in profound yet unexpected ways. If temporal discontinuity is a feature of our post-internet state of mind, /
Judging by the press releases announcing museum and major gallery programmes for 2026 which I finally dug up from my inbox:
- decolonisation is out,
- indigneneiety is on its last legs,
- but QUEERMAXXING is in.
And I'm not planning on seeing any of it.
- decolonisation is out,
- indigneneiety is on its last legs,
- but QUEERMAXXING is in.
And I'm not planning on seeing any of it.
January 12, 2026 at 10:00 AM
Judging by the press releases announcing museum and major gallery programmes for 2026 which I finally dug up from my inbox:
- decolonisation is out,
- indigneneiety is on its last legs,
- but QUEERMAXXING is in.
And I'm not planning on seeing any of it.
- decolonisation is out,
- indigneneiety is on its last legs,
- but QUEERMAXXING is in.
And I'm not planning on seeing any of it.
"If today’s social media is the equivalent of Rosenkrantz with her microphone — presenting an invitation, if not an obligation to create narratives — the idea that these recent technologies uniquely incentivise the production of inauthentic accounts rings hollow.
January 10, 2026 at 12:44 PM
"If today’s social media is the equivalent of Rosenkrantz with her microphone — presenting an invitation, if not an obligation to create narratives — the idea that these recent technologies uniquely incentivise the production of inauthentic accounts rings hollow.
Our events planned for this year include symposia on art and religion, decolonisation, literacy, folk culture, and internet art plus courses on the principles of judgment and rhetoric.
Support these projects if you can verdur.in/support/
Support these projects if you can verdur.in/support/
January 3, 2026 at 11:33 AM
Our events planned for this year include symposia on art and religion, decolonisation, literacy, folk culture, and internet art plus courses on the principles of judgment and rhetoric.
Support these projects if you can verdur.in/support/
Support these projects if you can verdur.in/support/
2026 is going to be the year of a new culture. Please support Verdurin and our programme of events, courses, and publishing to help us promote new ideas neglected by legacy institutions.
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January 2, 2026 at 5:00 PM
2026 is going to be the year of a new culture. Please support Verdurin and our programme of events, courses, and publishing to help us promote new ideas neglected by legacy institutions.
Coming up at Verdurin: I, Internet
What does it mean to make art in the machine?
As our consciousness evolves in networks and on platforms, our subjectivity is changing in profound yet unexpected ways. Recent works by often anonymous, post-millennial artists appear to think on, as much as about, /
What does it mean to make art in the machine?
As our consciousness evolves in networks and on platforms, our subjectivity is changing in profound yet unexpected ways. Recent works by often anonymous, post-millennial artists appear to think on, as much as about, /
December 29, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Coming up at Verdurin: I, Internet
What does it mean to make art in the machine?
As our consciousness evolves in networks and on platforms, our subjectivity is changing in profound yet unexpected ways. Recent works by often anonymous, post-millennial artists appear to think on, as much as about, /
What does it mean to make art in the machine?
As our consciousness evolves in networks and on platforms, our subjectivity is changing in profound yet unexpected ways. Recent works by often anonymous, post-millennial artists appear to think on, as much as about, /
Marcas Lancaster: Anathema
Was homosexuality’s degeneration foretold in the libertine excess of de Sade’s Sodom? Lancaster narrates the unpalatable truths of the AIDS crisis in florid, viral detail, finding in gay excess an image of liberal life itself.
Was homosexuality’s degeneration foretold in the libertine excess of de Sade’s Sodom? Lancaster narrates the unpalatable truths of the AIDS crisis in florid, viral detail, finding in gay excess an image of liberal life itself.
December 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Marcas Lancaster: Anathema
Was homosexuality’s degeneration foretold in the libertine excess of de Sade’s Sodom? Lancaster narrates the unpalatable truths of the AIDS crisis in florid, viral detail, finding in gay excess an image of liberal life itself.
Was homosexuality’s degeneration foretold in the libertine excess of de Sade’s Sodom? Lancaster narrates the unpalatable truths of the AIDS crisis in florid, viral detail, finding in gay excess an image of liberal life itself.
I returned to my podcasting alma mater @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social to speak with Caleb Zakarian and Amir Naaman about 'Inversion'.
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December 22, 2025 at 10:00 AM
I returned to my podcasting alma mater @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social to speak with Caleb Zakarian and Amir Naaman about 'Inversion'.
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👂🎧 buff.ly/v0R2CSU
Does aestheticising technological futures curtail our ability to critique them? Have we given up on understanding the systems that shape our lives on grounds of their efficiency masquerading in promises of liberation?
December 20, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Does aestheticising technological futures curtail our ability to critique them? Have we given up on understanding the systems that shape our lives on grounds of their efficiency masquerading in promises of liberation?
Yotam Feldman: Twilights of Homosexuality
Is homosexuality the Trojan horse of Western ideology? Taking his cue from Alexander Dugin’s ‘realist’ denunciation, Feldman exposes the homosexual’s propensity for deceit and intrigue.
Is homosexuality the Trojan horse of Western ideology? Taking his cue from Alexander Dugin’s ‘realist’ denunciation, Feldman exposes the homosexual’s propensity for deceit and intrigue.
December 19, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Yotam Feldman: Twilights of Homosexuality
Is homosexuality the Trojan horse of Western ideology? Taking his cue from Alexander Dugin’s ‘realist’ denunciation, Feldman exposes the homosexual’s propensity for deceit and intrigue.
Is homosexuality the Trojan horse of Western ideology? Taking his cue from Alexander Dugin’s ‘realist’ denunciation, Feldman exposes the homosexual’s propensity for deceit and intrigue.
notes and notices: Karimah Ashadu: Tendered at Camden Art Centre ★★☆☆☆
Ashadu’s films are as banal as they are overbought with glib signifiers. Take King of Boys, a five-minute survey of butchery in a meat market in the slums of Lagos. The document is trivial on the face of it: knives hack through
Ashadu’s films are as banal as they are overbought with glib signifiers. Take King of Boys, a five-minute survey of butchery in a meat market in the slums of Lagos. The document is trivial on the face of it: knives hack through
December 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
notes and notices: Karimah Ashadu: Tendered at Camden Art Centre ★★☆☆☆
Ashadu’s films are as banal as they are overbought with glib signifiers. Take King of Boys, a five-minute survey of butchery in a meat market in the slums of Lagos. The document is trivial on the face of it: knives hack through
Ashadu’s films are as banal as they are overbought with glib signifiers. Take King of Boys, a five-minute survey of butchery in a meat market in the slums of Lagos. The document is trivial on the face of it: knives hack through
Oliver Davis: The Great Gay Replacement
What should we do with bad gays? Reading the one-time cult erotica author Renaud Camus, Davis discovers the roots of the writer’s turn to immigration conspiracy theory in his homosexuality.
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What should we do with bad gays? Reading the one-time cult erotica author Renaud Camus, Davis discovers the roots of the writer’s turn to immigration conspiracy theory in his homosexuality.
@oliverjdavis.bsky.social
December 16, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Oliver Davis: The Great Gay Replacement
What should we do with bad gays? Reading the one-time cult erotica author Renaud Camus, Davis discovers the roots of the writer’s turn to immigration conspiracy theory in his homosexuality.
@oliverjdavis.bsky.social
What should we do with bad gays? Reading the one-time cult erotica author Renaud Camus, Davis discovers the roots of the writer’s turn to immigration conspiracy theory in his homosexuality.
@oliverjdavis.bsky.social
Why is the art commissioned for churches - such as the 'Hear Us' graffiti at Canterbury Cathedral - so woefully uninspiring? Does contemporary art have anything to say about faith, or vice versa?
The answer lies in the English Reformation. Me in The Critic.
The answer lies in the English Reformation. Me in The Critic.
December 15, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Why is the art commissioned for churches - such as the 'Hear Us' graffiti at Canterbury Cathedral - so woefully uninspiring? Does contemporary art have anything to say about faith, or vice versa?
The answer lies in the English Reformation. Me in The Critic.
The answer lies in the English Reformation. Me in The Critic.
notes and notices: Means of Reproduction at Emalin ★★☆☆☆
Turning the gallery into a gift shop – of arty t-shirts, tote bags, and homeware – is the dealer’s gimmick of last resort. It turns critique itself into a commodity, revealing, to anyone still somehow unaware of it, the art object’s /
Turning the gallery into a gift shop – of arty t-shirts, tote bags, and homeware – is the dealer’s gimmick of last resort. It turns critique itself into a commodity, revealing, to anyone still somehow unaware of it, the art object’s /
December 14, 2025 at 4:46 PM
notes and notices: Means of Reproduction at Emalin ★★☆☆☆
Turning the gallery into a gift shop – of arty t-shirts, tote bags, and homeware – is the dealer’s gimmick of last resort. It turns critique itself into a commodity, revealing, to anyone still somehow unaware of it, the art object’s /
Turning the gallery into a gift shop – of arty t-shirts, tote bags, and homeware – is the dealer’s gimmick of last resort. It turns critique itself into a commodity, revealing, to anyone still somehow unaware of it, the art object’s /
Last night at Verdurin with Ronan McCrea, Jo Bartosch, and Amir Naaman, discussing 'Inversion' and 'The End of the Gay Rights Revolution'.
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Get the books: buff.ly/Mwn1pYY
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December 13, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Last night at Verdurin with Ronan McCrea, Jo Bartosch, and Amir Naaman, discussing 'Inversion' and 'The End of the Gay Rights Revolution'.
Get the books: buff.ly/Mwn1pYY
buff.ly/jzoykmt
Get the books: buff.ly/Mwn1pYY
buff.ly/jzoykmt
Travis Jeppesen: Gay Shame, A Retrospective
Why can’t gay culture sustain its once-vital taste for transgression? Jeppesen bemoans the rise of conformism, indicting today’s queer intellectual and artistic scene with censoriousness and grift.
Why can’t gay culture sustain its once-vital taste for transgression? Jeppesen bemoans the rise of conformism, indicting today’s queer intellectual and artistic scene with censoriousness and grift.
December 12, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Travis Jeppesen: Gay Shame, A Retrospective
Why can’t gay culture sustain its once-vital taste for transgression? Jeppesen bemoans the rise of conformism, indicting today’s queer intellectual and artistic scene with censoriousness and grift.
Why can’t gay culture sustain its once-vital taste for transgression? Jeppesen bemoans the rise of conformism, indicting today’s queer intellectual and artistic scene with censoriousness and grift.
Tonight, with Ronan McCrea, Amir Naaman, and Jo Bartosch.
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December 12, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Tonight, with Ronan McCrea, Amir Naaman, and Jo Bartosch.
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The Christmas tree is up.
December 11, 2025 at 10:01 AM
The Christmas tree is up.
Monkeypox returns to London in time for the launch of Inversion on Friday.
Warning issued after new mpox strain identified in England
Symptoms include skin rash with blisters, spots or ulcers that can appear anywhere on the body, as well as fever, headache, backache and muscle aches
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December 10, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Monkeypox returns to London in time for the launch of Inversion on Friday.
This Friday at Verdurin: After the Orgy
What happens when all social struggles — for freedoms, rights, and acceptance — have been won? How may gay men map a future without becoming consumed by culture war narratives and without falsifying the historical record of their own emancipation?
What happens when all social struggles — for freedoms, rights, and acceptance — have been won? How may gay men map a future without becoming consumed by culture war narratives and without falsifying the historical record of their own emancipation?
December 9, 2025 at 10:00 AM
This Friday at Verdurin: After the Orgy
What happens when all social struggles — for freedoms, rights, and acceptance — have been won? How may gay men map a future without becoming consumed by culture war narratives and without falsifying the historical record of their own emancipation?
What happens when all social struggles — for freedoms, rights, and acceptance — have been won? How may gay men map a future without becoming consumed by culture war narratives and without falsifying the historical record of their own emancipation?