Tuesday's Art Notes

_A girl sit in front of portraits of former Soviet dictator Vladimir Lenin, as 230 Communist-era relics were auctioned on December 6, 2010 to benefit the victims of last month's red sludge flood, in Budapest. The Pinter Gallery organized the auction to help residents hit by a wave of red mud on October 4 that killed 10 and destroyed countless homes. Photo by Balint Porneci/ AFP/ Getty Images_ * Susan Philipsz, the winner of this year's Turner Prize, is the first artist to be honored with the award for a work of sound art, via "The Guardian":http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/dec/06/turner-prize-winner-susan-philipsz. But at the ceremony, her work was drowned out by a loud protest made by students upset over Britain's major arts budget cuts. * A library in Nantes, France has turned up a new scrap of manuscript, written in the hand of Leonardo Da Vinci, via "BBC":http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11936080. * A new study from Americans for the Arts tracks the decrease in corporate spending on the arts from 2006-2009, via "Bloomberg":http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-07/wall-street-corporate-giving-to-arts-groups-fell-in-2006-09-study-says.html. * Novelist "Michael Chabon":http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/july-dec09/chabon_10-26.html will replace (NewsHour's own) Robert MacNeil as the Chairman of the historic artists' haven the "MacDowell Colony":http://www.macdowellcolony.org/, via the "Associated Press":http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hAqFXnc5ByczmaFSDMAdhJsFxYlw?docId=f565222f988b4e589c870ae51457edb4.