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.
英國最著名的街頭藝術家班克西(Banksy)可能因為他的作品而變得過于出名，他們的出現引發了一些奇怪的反應。在過去幾周連續幾天里，他在倫敦創作了九幅動物畫作品，其中一幅——一只嚎叫的狼，畫在一只舊衛星接收器上——被盜了，而另一幅則是一只犀牛似乎在爬上一輛廢棄的汽車，被另一位涂鴉藝術家標記了，而汽車本身也消失了。在倫敦市的一個警衛亭上，有一群食人魚的模板被移到了其他地方以確保安全。也許只有倫敦動物園(London Zoo)入口處的那幅畫，展示了一只大猩猩掀起籬笆邊緣來釋放一只海獅和一些鳥類，注定會有一個長久的生命。