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  • Frank Faryab spends £2million proving oil painting he bought is lost JMW Turner masterpiece.
  • The Scream pastel drawing on cardboard by Munch sells for a record $120 million at Sotheby’s.  Speculation on who may have won it.  Adjusting for inflation, the piece is not the most expensive artwork ever sold.
  • The Getty cutting about 9% of its workforce in order to buy more art.
  • Suit over WWII Norton Simon artwork enters final phase & could have far reaching implications.
  • Tate favoring new art too much over old art?
  • A factory canteen in Oslo which contains murals by Edvard Munch set to be sold.
  • Gertrude Stein, whose collection is going to be shown at the Met, was a Nazi collaborator.
  • 63-year-old William Mumford gets 2 years in jail for forging up to 1,000 paintings.
  • Five paintings recovered in Alaska wildlife trafficking case.
  • Picasso painting coming up for auction was allegedly damaged by Acquavella Galleries.
  •  Art Gallery of Calgary sues former CEO for about $500,000 in allegedly falsified expenses.
  • Artforum attends OHWOW Gallery and D4D’s “Celebrating The Pocket Guide to Politics” event.
  • Exhibition of Lucian Freud paintings sets new record for visitors at the National Portrait Gallery.
  • David Hockney is Britain’s top philanthropist.
  • Sarah Thornton talks to Ai Weiwei.
  • Ed Ruscha expressing his love for Lawrence Weiner by channeling Bob Dylan.
  • NY Times profiles and updates us on Rita Ackermann’s career.
  • Latest installment: Tobias Meyer discusses Roy Lichtenstein’s Sleeping Girl with Tom Ford.
  • Turner Prize 2012 shortlist: Spartacus Chetwynd, Luke Fowler, Paul Noble & Elizabeth Price.
  • Grayson Perry wins South Bank Sky Arts Award for The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman.
  • Felix Salmon on Jeff Koons’ Rabbit, Eli Broad, and Broad’s new book.
  • Portland’s art scene is on the way up.
  • NY’s Frieze art fair encounters Occupy movement protest against art commercialization.
  • Pace Gallery and Marianne Boesky working together on Pier Paolo Calzolari exhibition.
  • Vice’s Glen Coco visits Tracey Emin’s retrospective at Hayward Gallery.
  • Seward Johnson’s controversial Forever Marilyn sculpture moving on, but where?
  • Interview with controversial artist Tinkebell.
  • Jerry Saltz writes about the Frieze New York art fair.