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Tim Smith-Laing

London

Reviewer, Arts Critic and Writer at Freelance

Writer, reviewer, listener for @TelegraphBooks, @apollomag, @frieze_magazine, etc ... All views my own, etc.

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  • Can art survive the AI juggernaut?

    3 weeks ago | apollo-magazine.com | Tim Smith-Laing

    This review of Medium Hot: Images in the Age of Heat by Hito Steyerl appears in the June 2025 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. During the second half of the 20th century the favoured metaphor for the effortless and detached exercise of power was ‘the push of a button’. It linked everyone from ordinary citizens through to the leaders of nations, for whom this same gesture could activate anything from an ice maker to nuclear war.

  • Leprosy never went away

    3 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Tim Smith-Laing

    Leprosy, as Oliver Basciano notes in his fascinating and humane book Outcast, is more than an illness. It's a byword, a "cultural artefact" that functions as "a receptacle for nightmares and prejudice"; a kind of "Ur-stigma" that has run through our collective nightmares for two millennia. Those who suffer from leprosy aren't just sick, but unclean.

  • Pictures that look good enough to eat

    2 months ago | apollo-magazine.com | Tim Smith-Laing

    When a picture looks good enough to eat THIS ARTICLE IS FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY The Mass of Saint Gregory (c 1490; detail), attr. Diego de la Cruz. Philadelphia Museum of Art

  • Murder, corruption and ancient Rome

    Mar 16, 2025 | telegraph.co.uk | Tim Smith-Laing

    Reviewers are mildly allergic to claims that a book is "timely" or, worse still, "urgent". If books were as timely and urgent as publishers' marketing departments like to suggest, they should come equipped with sirens and blue lights. And yet, once in a while a book calmly slips into the world that really does feel both of those things.

  • The wild imagination of Maurice Sendak

    Dec 6, 2024 | apollo-magazine.com | Tim Smith-Laing

    The reinvention of the Museum of Childhood as Young V&A has been a great success. Should more institutions follow its example and become younger at heart?

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Tim Smith-Laing @TimSmith_Laing
20 Jan 25

Floored by the efficiency of @CanonUKandIE who are approaching 3 weeks of silence after failing to send me part of my last order. Fantastic customer service guys. Either send me my paper or give me back my money!

Tim Smith-Laing
Tim Smith-Laing @TimSmith_Laing

And I continue to wait for @CanonUKandIE to rectify their error and either refund me for their mistake or send me the paper I ordered. What's the issue?

Tim Smith-Laing
Tim Smith-Laing @TimSmith_Laing
19 Jan 25

And I continue to wait for @CanonUKandIE to rectify their error and either refund me for their mistake or send me the paper I ordered. What's the issue?

Tim Smith-Laing
Tim Smith-Laing @TimSmith_Laing

@CanonUKandIE, have now been waiting over a fortnight for a refund after you failed to deliver my complete order and I raised a complaint. What's happening?

Tim Smith-Laing
Tim Smith-Laing @TimSmith_Laing
4 Dec 24

Well folks, I'm trying to make this stick. I shall be over here unless it all goes terribly wrong. https://t.co/heojh8m8rn