Banksy, the UK’s best-known street artist, might be getting too famous for the good of his creations. Their appearance provokes some odd reactions. Of the nine animal paintings he made across London over consecutive days in the past weeks, one — a howling wolf, painted on an old satellite dish — has been stolen, while another, a rhinoceros appearing to mount an abandoned car, has been tagged by another graffiti writer, and the car itself has vanished. A shoal of piranhas stencilled on to a police sentry box in the City has been moved elsewhere for safety. Perhaps only the image at the entrance to London Zoo, showing a gorilla lifting an edge of the fencing to release a sea lion and some birds, is destined for a long life.
英国最著名的街头艺术家班克西(Banksy)可能因为他的作品而变得过于出名，他们的出现引发了一些奇怪的反应。在过去几周连续几天里，他在伦敦创作了九幅动物画作品，其中一幅——一只嚎叫的狼，画在一只旧卫星接收器上——被盗了，而另一幅则是一只犀牛似乎在爬上一辆废弃的汽车，被另一位涂鸦艺术家标记了，而汽车本身也消失了。在伦敦市的一个警卫亭上，有一群食人鱼的模板被移到了其他地方以确保安全。也许只有伦敦动物园(London Zoo)入口处的那幅画，展示了一只大猩猩掀起篱笆边缘来释放一只海狮和一些鸟类，注定会有一个长久的生命。