Banksy created seven works in London in seven days
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Artist Banksy has confirmed the authorship of a new graffiti on a police box in London. The glass box has been transformed into a piranha aquarium, which is the seventh new work by the artist in the British capital in the last seven days.
The elusive artist Banksy has confirmed that he painted floating piranhas on a police box in the City of London, UNN reports.
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According to the BBC, robot was first spotted on Sunday morning.
A glass box on Ludgate Hill, near the Old Bailey and St. Paul's Cathedral, has been transformed into an aquarium.
This is his seventh new work presented in the British capital in the last few days, after a goat, monkeys, elephants, wolf, pelicans, and a cat.
Crowds gathered to take photos throughout the day until a fence was erected preventing people from entering.
"This work differs from Banksy's previous works featured this week in that it is a detailed painting that appears to have been created with translucent spray paint," the publication points out.
The City of London Police said it was aware of "criminal damage" to the police box and was contacting the City of London Corporation, which owns it.
Earlier, an employee of the corporation was seen barricading it and asking spectators not to stand on the road next to it.
The representative said: "We are currently working on options for preserving the work of art.
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The booth, according to the newspaper, is one of many installed in the 1990s, used by police officers who monitored traffic to prevent IRA attacks.
