Reading jail to host two-month Oscar Wilde project

Ai Weiwei, Steve McQueen and Maxine Peake to feature in Artangel exhibition at site of writer’s imprisonmentVisitors to Reading jail this autumn might encounter Patti Smith reading the four-and-a-half-hour entirety of Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis, or see new artworks by Steve McQueen, Nan Goldin or Marlene Dumas dotted around echoing corridors and empty cells.Artangel announced on Thursday that it was taking over one of the most notorious prisons in the UK, the place where Wilde spent