The Rising Tide

The Rising Tide by Jason deCires Taylor is a temporary installation situated beside Vauxhall Bridge on the beach below Albert Embankment.

Located a mile away from the House of Parliament, the four horsemen of the apocalypse is a political statement on the impact of fossil fuel and the reluctance by our leaders to tackle climate change. The sculptures, which features horses with heads modeled after oil well pumps, are only visible during low tides. Two of the riders in business suits looks away in defiance.

Carsten Höller Decision

Carsten Höller: Decision

Hayward Gallery at Southbank Centre has always hosted some pretty amazing and immersive exhibitions such as Martin Creed's What's the point of it? and Lights. So it was pretty exciting news when they announced that they will be hosting Carsten Höller latest exhibition - Decision, featuring some of his best installations and more.

The Wellcome Collection's stunning new spiral staircase

Anyone who has followed my Instagram account will know how much I love spiral staircases. From traditional 17th century cantilevered stone staircases like the beautiful Tulip staircase in Queen's House to the majestic Brewer staircase at Heals and modern classics like the one in City Hall. If there's an interesting staircase, particularly the spiral kind, you will bet I will be there photographing it.

Get your own sign in London Underground Johnston

Hibernacula is a pop up art gallery featuring photographs, prints, poetry and fine art by some of East London finest artists. You can find them at an old office beside Leytonstone London Underground station. One of the artist who is exhibiting there is Russell Frost of Hooksmith Press. Originally from New Zeland, Russell has a small selection of his Letterpress prints on display as well as a working vintage letter press and London Underground's famous Johnston typeface press blocks. Up till 26 February, you can have anything you like set in arguably one of the world's famous typeface. So, what are you waiting for? Go.

Lichtenstein: A Retrospective at Tate Modern

Tate Modern is hosting an exhibition based on the great American artist, Roy Lichtenstein. Alongside Andy Warhol, Lichtenstein was an influential part of the Pop Art visual movement. The exhibition at the former Bankside power station will bring together and celebrate 125 of his best paintings and sculptures for the first time in twenty years. These includes such classics as Whaam!, Drowning Girl and Oh, Jeff... I Love You, Too... But...

Lichtenstein: A Retrospective opens this week and will go on until 27 May 2013. Tickets are available for £14. So, fans of Pop Art, go get your comic art fix. An app accompanying the exhibition is also available for iOS devices (only - boo!).

Incidentally, BrewDog, everyone's favourite rebel brewer, has crafted a special edition Lichtenstein beer called the Torpedo beer, featuring the artist's Torpedo... Los! artwork. Awesomeness.

Random International: Rain Room at the Barbican

The power to control the rain is one that many of us wish we have - to let it rain as nature intends, and yet to stay completely dry at all times. Even if technology has somewhat allowed us to partially control the weather, it appears unlikely we will ever wield complete control of the rain in our life time.

But thanks to a recent art experiment by Random International at the Barbican Centre's The Curve room, we can now at least imagine what it would feel like to control the rain. From 4 October until 3 March 2013, visitors has to put their complete trust in the workings of the 'Rain Room', a room where it always rain - except where you stand. Sensors installed overhead allows one to stay dry in a room filled with constant shower of water.

Here I am endangering a Lumia 920

We visited the Barbican yesterday just before opening time where we were greeted with a very long queue. After a 1 1/2 hour queue, we finally managed to enter the room and, in the process of walking towards the rain... I got soaked! You see, there is a slight problem with the installation - if you are wearing a black jacket, it wouldn't work! Once the black coat was removed, the 'rain' would simply switch off wherever I walked.

So there you go, that's my little advice to you. Get down there and experience this great thing once. It is opened daily from 11am until 8pm (10pm on Thursday, plus random closes for maintenance, so check ahead). Entry is free, just don't forget to bring a book as the installation is very popular and queues can last up to three hours. Also, ditch your black jacket.

Imbue ArtVend art vending machine

While on a quick pit stop in Brighton on Saturday, we decided to grab brunch at the local independent cafe The Marwood Coffee Shop. Here we stumbled onto a vending machine so brilliant, we actually spent £16 in under an hour (we had to go to the bank to get £2 coins!). The concept is so simple and yet so ingenious and forward thinking, I tip my hat at its creators.

You see, the vending machine ain't just any ordinary vending machine. It's an ArtVend, meaning it despense a piece of art work screen printed on DVD size plywood panels, in this case arts by local Brighton street artist Imbue. Why DVD size plywood panels you ask? Well the vending machines were once used to sell pornographic DVDs, so there!

Tino Sehgal: These Associations at Turbine Hall, Tate Modern review

Four years ago, the first storyteller went on a trip to South Africa. On route the plane landed in an unnamed country, one of which I've forgotten. The storyteller was on transit in a city which is known for its bleak and desolate past and present. He could of course not leave the airport because it was a transit flight. So when the flight departed, the one memory he has of the city was the orange skyline that was coloured by the departing sun. After a few more exchanges, the first storyteller left and joined his companion as they circled me.

A few years ago, the second storyteller was camping in Doha with her friend. She talked about walking the sand dunes and ridges of the great Safari desert. The conversation steered towards dreams and we talked about human souls, dreams as an escape of reality, human's impact on earth and how the earth doesn't even feel us and finally human's desire to conquer the space time continium to time travel. We talked about London and the Thames and how just 5000 years ago there were no traces of humans. If we humans would disappear, it would only take a thousand years for nature to wipe all evidence of us. A blink of an eye in earth's history before she abruptly left.

These are two examples of the intimate stories that were exchanged between me and two storytellers in Tino Sehgal's These Associations. The installation or participatory exhibition as I wold have called it, was surreal, imaginative, eerie and scary at the same time. Rarely has any of the past passive exhibitions at the Turbine Hall gave me any sort of emotions, let alone four. It may be an example of 'pretentious art' and the stories may be true or otherwise, but it was no less compelling.

Tino Sehgal's These Associations is part of The Unilever Series at Turbine Hall, Tate Modern and will last until 28 October 2012. It is the first live exhibition in the series.

The Tanks: Art in Action at Tate Modern

On Sunday while the rest of London were treated to the best and worst of Britpop, we visited Tate Modern's newest exhibition space, The Tanks, for the second time. Thanks to their late opening hours, we were able to wander around the hall and drum galleries unhindered, taking in the installations with only the eerie silence or whatever soundtrack attached to certain installations as accompaniments.

The Tanks were once three abandoned underground oil tanks, originally used by the former Bankside power station. It lies just by the south side of the Turbine Hall. It has recently been refurbished for use as a gallery and will now a permanent location for live and video art installations. A new building is currently being constructed above The Tanks in a redevelopment called the Tate Modern Project, which will see the creation of a new exhibition wing.

While The Tanks's Art In Action will be a permanent feature to the new wing of Tate Modern, it will only be opened to the public in intervals from October while construction of the new building goes on above. While initially skeptical about how the raw, cold interior and brutalist architecture of The Tanks, which used to hold five millions of oil, would fit with live art, the dark echo chambers were brilliantly utilised.

So far 40 artists has been commissioned to provide live work of art at The Tanks. Both semi permanent and limited live exhibitions such as Tania Bruguera's Immigrant Movement International and Haegue Yang's Dress Vehicles will be free.