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Banksy Artwork Appears on Jail in England
Loaded on May 1, 2021
by David Reutter
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2021, page 62
Filed under:
Art.
Location:
United Kingdom.
by David M. Reutter
Artwork that appeared on the side of Reading Prison in Berkshire, England, according to curator Vince John, appears to be a “new Banksy.”
The painting shows a prisoner in stripped garb escaping on a rope made of bedsheets as he repels down the wall with a ...
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