19/04 - Inflatable Mouse

A giant inflatable mouse designed by architect Jacques Rival floated on the Rhone River to remind the city about flooding.

Toronto Nuit Blanche 2009

We took the TTC and got home just before 7am. What a night!

02/04-East Side Gallery, Berlin

I feel guilty if I don't show any image of the East Side Gallery of Berlin, especially when 2009 marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. East Side Gallery is both a wonderful open-air showcase of art and an impressive manifesto of human freedom. The longest surviving stretch of the Berlin Wall. A great feast of street art.

02/04-The Murder of Crows

Occupying the central hall of Museum für Gegenwart at Hamburger Bahnhof, Canadian artists Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller's sound installation, The Murder of Crows turns the former railway station hall into a space of emotions and poetics. With 98 speakers surrounding the audience in all directions and a gramophone at the very centre, a four-part story is told through powerful narratives, audio effects and songs. For more information please visit www.cardiffmiller.com.

With the hall's perfect spatial qualities, beautiful natural light and magnificent sound engineering, The Murder of Crows creates remarkable imaginary in my mind continuously for 30 minutes. It is pure delight that we got the chance to drop-by Hamburger Bahnhof at our last day of Berlin.

Ai Wei Wei

A stormy morning. By the Thames at the Albion Gallery, in the wavy complex designed by Foster came our first encounter with the works of Ai Wei Wei. In China and beyond, Ai Wei Wei becomes a figure representing Chinese avant-garde. His fame escalated after he collaborated with Herzog de Meuron on designing Beijing's Olympic Stadium.

Nothing rebellious like his former pieces. Bamboos, a symbol of old tradition and new construction, stood in an architectural fashion that lure spectators into the heart of an abstract scaffolding. Perhaps the empty chairs in the air signify Ai's attempt to immortalise the workers in the age of massive construction. Perhaps they represent the sense of loss for traditional China. We will have another chance to see his work at Venice Biennale in two weeks of time.

Street Art, London 2008

Tate Modern, June to now

Waterloo Taxi Tunnel, May

Street Art has been a big hit in London in the past two months. First street artists from all around the world came to transform a taxi-parking tunnel at the Waterloo Train Station into a huge public gallery. Then the Tate Modern came along to hold a special exhibition on street art and provide its massive brick facade for gigantic pieces made by internationally renounced street artists. If there hasn't been Banksy in the past few years to stir up the controversy, how differently will the public and the mass media evaluate these great and often meaningful works that they once call graffiti?