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Banksy has painted an image of a prisoner escaping down the walls of Reading Prison using a ream of paper weighted by a typewriter, invoking the institutions most famous inmate—writer Oscar Wilde © REUTERS/Matthew Childs The British street artist Banksy has confirmed that he created a new work that appeared on Monday on the outside wall of Reading Prison, in Berkshire, England. The work shows an inmate dressed in a stripey black and white outfit lowering himself down the wall using a long sheet of paper (mimicking the tied bedsheets method) weighted by a typewriter. Ba...

Banksy's Reading Jail stunt could be his finest contribution to British culture The scene of Oscar Wilde's incarceration should be turned into an arts centre worthy of him, not more flats. Can Banksy's latest work help? The Bansky painting on the side of Reading Jail So, Banksy has achieved what Judi Dench, Kenneth Branagh and Stephen Fry could not: turned a huge spotlight on the threat of inappropriate development that hangs over the defunct HM Prison Reading, long and still colloquially known as Reading Gaol. The three actors – Grade I-listed household-names – have each issued eloquent ...

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LONDON — Banksy appears to have thrown his support behind a campaign to turn a former prison in the English town of Reading into an arts venue, a town spokesman said on Thursday, after the street artist confirmed that artwork that appeared on a red brick wall of the prison was of his making. The […]

LONDON - Banksy appears to have thrown his support behind a campaign to turn a former prison in the English town of Reading into an arts venue, a town s...