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Groups in Reading have expressed “huge disappointment” after a mural by street artist Banksy on the side of a former prison was defaced with red paint. The artwork, entitled Create Escape, appeared on the red brick wall of Reading Prison on March 1 and showed an inmate escaping lockdown using a knotted spool of paper from a typewriter. On Tuesday, pictures emerged showing that the piece had been defaced with red paint covering the typewriter, with the phrase “Team Robbo” below. This app...

The feud between King Robbo and Banksy reportedly dates back to 1990s. King Robbo claims to have met Banksy in a pub in Old Street, London. The artists says he slapped Banksy after Banksy claimed to have never heard of him.  In 2009, a piece of graffiti art painted by a 15-year-old King Robbo in 1985 was destroyed by Banksy who replaced it with a stencil of a workman pasting wallpaper. The graffiti was under the British Transport Police HQ in London and was considered one of the oldest in the ...

Create Escape appeared on the wall of the former prison on March 1.

“I was absolutely gutted when I saw what had happened,” he said. “I know the Banksy story but it doesn’t give people the right to do this. To see this is horrendous. “I grabbed stuff from home and came down after I heard a cleaning guy on BBC Radio Berkshire, who explained what to do. “I thought I would come down and have a go, but I’m hoping someone else will sort out the typewriter – I won’t be able to do that.” Vandals have defaced the Banksy mural in Reading ...

LACMA CEO and director Michael Govan. Photo by Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images for LACMA. Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and art market. Here’s what you need to know on this Tuesday, March 16. NEED-TO-READ A German Prince Wants His Family Treasures Back From Germany – Georg Friedrich Prinz von Preussen, a descendant of the Hohenzollern dynasty (which reigned over the former Prussian empire), is on a quest to recover his f...

ARTWORK painted by Banksy on the side of Reading Gaol has been vandalised, according to the BBC.

‘Create Escape’ mural now features Team Robbo tag, an apparent reference to graffiti artist King Robbo

BANKSYS latest Reading prison mural has been vandalised with the name of another street artist.

Create Escape appeared on the wall of the former prison on March 1.

Press Release – International Art Centre A work by renowned but elusive British street artist Banksy is tipped to become one of the most expensive contemporary works of art in New Zealand and could bring $1 million or more at an art auction in Auckland later this month. Keep It Real is one of three works in the sale by Banksy, a global art phenomenon who has yet to be publicly identified, and is the feature offering at a sale of Important and Rare Art at the International Art Centre in Parnel...