Prisoner of the exhibitions of the artist Ai Weiwei United Kingdom

The Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has disappeared. But look around, and it seems to be everywhere.

More than a month after one of the most famous contemporary artist from China was arrested trying to board a flight to Hong Kong, in his name, his face and his art was arose around the world. China's Communist leaders refused to say where artificial intelligence is or which takes him. His colleagues in the international art world say they want to ensure that it disappears from the point of view.

"Liberation Ai Weiwei," reads a message inscribed on top of Tate Modern Britain, one of the attractions of most visited in the country. This week, two major exhibitions of artist's work are dating in London - including in Somerset House in the capital, a place of prestige which hosts the biennial capital fashion week. The other, at the Lisson Gallery in the West of London, has a photograph in black and white two-story-high artist look of the facade.

Leviathan, a work of art by Indian born British artist Anish Kapoor is unveiled at the Grand Palais in Paris on Tuesday, may 10, 2011. Monochrome 35 inflated Leviathan metres high air allows people to turn and walk inside, labour who filled the cavernous Grand Palace and is presented here until June 23.(AP Photo/Remy of the Mauviniere) Close

"Until he is incarcerated, artists and cultural personalities will ask what we can do," said writer Ekow Eshun, one of several people who attended the launch of the work of AI, 12 massive, large bronze heads of animals intended to recreate the traditional Chinese zodiac.

It is not just in London that absence of IA is to be felt.

In Paris on Monday, British sculptor Anish Kapoor, probably best known to Americans for his reflective, pivot of bean-like frozen at Millennium Park in Chicago, has dedicated his latest monumental work, entitled "Leviathan," the Chinese artist - even though he acknowledged he had never met.

"He is a colleague, an artist," Kapoor told the Guardian newspaper. "In a very simple way, he is heroically saving human existence."

In New York, Mayor Michael Bloomberg joined artistic city community in honouring the IA to Pulitzer fountain Manhattan last week, telling the assembled audience fearlessness of the artist at official intimidation spoke of "the indomitable desire for freedom that is within every human being."

In China, which is thought to be held secretly by the State security, activists artists also made their voices in support. Hong Kong, which has its own separate legal system, its similarity templates have been sprayed around and even laser-projected onto the local army garrison building.

Despite the growing outcry, China refused to answer the question on the fate of the artist.

"This case remains under investigation and those outside people should refrain from comment", Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Jiang Yu said Tuesday.

NYC opens the exhibition of the detained Chinese artist

 The New York artistic community and Mayor Michael Bloomberg honoured detained artist Chinese Ai Weiwei Wednesday, unveiling his bronze giant sculpture installation even as he remains imprisoned in her native country in a recent crackdown on dissent.

"The artists risk everything to create", Bloomberg said, standing before the heads of animals from Pulitzer fountain Manhattan 12. "But artists such as Ai Weiwei, who come from places that do step value and protect freedom of expression, yet more than one risk."

The mayor said IA willingness to take risks to his courage, but the indomitable desire for freedom that is within every human being also spoken. ?

Hundreds of lawyers, activists and other intellectuals in China have disappeared or been questioned or detained by the authorities in recent weeks. IA was arrested April 3. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China that he was under investigation for economic crimes. Sister of said that he is punished for talking about the Communist leadership and social problems.

US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton last month called for his release. A call to the Chinese Consulate seeking comment Wednesday was not immediately returned.

In New York, installing the first major public sculpture of AI, called "The circle of the heads of the animals/Zodiac," presented each of the Chinese zodiac animals - many of them with fun expressions. Each animal head weighs about 800 pounds, about 3-by-4 feet and is located at the top of a narrow column of bronze.

Given that the outspoken artist could not attend the opening, a dozen members of the artistic community of city rather read some of his previous remarks. The artist Julian Schnabel, poet Yusef Komunyakaa and choreographer Bill t. Jones were among them.

"Without freedom of expression, there is no modern world, just a barbarian," said in a citation read by the curator of Museum Guggenheim Alexandra Munroe.

I attended Parsons School of Design in New York and lived in the city for more than a decade. He said that the zodiac room is an ideal solution for New York because of the diversity of the city and call for works of art for children and adults.

New York was the first stop on a tour of the six-city of illustration. The exhibit will be implemented at the southeast corner of Central Park until July 15. After that, it will be presented in London, Los Angeles, Houston, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.

Artist of dirt among the four finalists for UK Turner Prize

 A sculptor of mussels dirt, flour and other everyday detritus is the grand favourite to win this year Turner Prize, Britain's best-known and most provocative art award.

Organizers on Wednesday appointed four finalists for the award of 25,000 pounds ($ 41,000), awarded annually to a British artist under 50.

Favorite is based in Glasgow Karla Black, 38, who sculpts with unusual materials, including flour, plaster, oil and soil frost.

A single piece, recently on display at Hayward Gallery London, was a mound of large dirt, stratified resembling a multi-level cake or a stone Ziggurat.

Katrina Brown, Member of the jury of the prize, said that used black "materials" very trivial and often surprising including salts of bath, red lipstick and the soil, to create a job with a "vulnerable beauty."

Artist Scottish age of 43 years, Martin Boyce, whose installations inspired by modernism used fences, chairs, dustbin and Neon is also on the shortlist.

The other finalists were London based video artist Hilary Lloyd, 46, who captures the construction sites, road bridges and other scenes urban eeries; and English artist age of 44 years, George Shaw, the only painter among the nominees, which creates tables suburban inspired by his childhood with model enamel paint.

Price Turner, takes its name from the 19th century landscape J.M.W. Turner, was established in 1984 in honor of young British artists.

Prices often sparks a debate animated on the value of modern art. Past winners have reached "Brit Art" as a transvestite potter Grayson Perry, painter dung-swastikas Chris Ofili, pickler Damien Hirst shark.

It also attracts betting of players-loving art. Bookmakers William Hill made black the odds-on favorite to win the prize of this year, followed by Shaw at 5/2, 3/1 Lloyd and Boyce to 4/1 6/4.

An exhibition of works by the finalists opens at the Gallery Baltic in Gateshead, Northern England, on 21 October. The winner will be announced on December 5.

Work of the graffiti artist him land in the Museum and the prison (Reuters)

an artist of graffiti, whose work is went to earlier this month a prestigious Museum in Los Angeles was sentenced to 45 days in prison on Wednesday to practice the same profession in New York.

Angel Ortiz, 44, was arrested three times in March for spray-painting "Laroc" - his tag - on walls and buildings in downtown Manhattan.

He was sent to Rikers Island prison, on the third and therefore missed his chance to attend the opening of this month of "Art in the Streets," an exhibition of art graffiti and street at the Contemporary Art Museum of Los Angeleswhich includes works by Ortiz.

"I went out walking my dog, I brought a can with me - I should have done, I knew sooner or later I would have caught", he said a police officer, as he was arrested the third timeWill can in hand, according to a complaint filed to the Court by the Office of the Attorney of District of Manhattan.

Ortiz pleaded guilty Wednesday to charge high against him - to fourth-degree criminal mischief - and was sentenced to 45 days in prison, including the months already served.

"He was going on a tear I've not seen done for years", Heidi Follin, who represents Ortiz through his gallery, in New York said in a telephone interview after the hearing.

She said that it had been affected by the death of his wife in January from disease.

"It is so bad-graffiti right now that I think just, he came out and showed their which a king,"she said."".

Work of canvas of Ortiz, that passes under the name of the II, selling thousands of dollars, says Follin.

His reputation as a pioneer of the art of the street earned him inclusion in the MOCA exhibition, which was described by Jeffrey Deitch, Director of the Museum, as "the first exhibition of positioning the work of the most influential artists to emerge from the street culture in the context of the history of contemporary art".

It includes works by some of the best-known proponents of the form, including Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring, with which Ortiz worked in the 1980s. MOCA does not return calls seeking comment Monday.

Los Angeles Police have said they feared that the exhibition could encourage an increase in graffiti in the neighbourhood of the Museum. Jason Williams, another author of graffiti in the exhibition, which is the name of virtue, was sentenced to 180 days in jail for violating the terms of his probation following a previous conviction of vandalism, according to media reports.