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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 appears to be a reference to graffiti artist King Robbo, who was in a long-running feud with Banksy bef...

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 country.  Later that year, Robbo then reclaimed his piece from Banksy's defacing by covering 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 with red paint The new graffiti appears to refer to the famous street artist King Robbo, who had a...

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 family’s art and artifacts. The bourgeois businessman believes that the royal treasures, confiscate...