2000 in art

The year 2000 in art involved various significant events.

Events

*February – Opening of the New Art Gallery Walsall in the West Midlands of England.
*13 February – The final original ''Peanuts'' comic strip is published, following the death of its creator, Charles Schulz.
*9 March – The FBI arrests art forgery suspect Ely Sakhai in New York City.
*May – Christie's withdraws a forgery of Paul Gauguin's ''Vase de Fleurs'' (''Lilas'') from auction.
*11 May – Official opening of the Tate Modern in London.
*7 August – DeviantART is launched in the United States.
* 12 October – Official opening of The Lowry theatre and gallery centre in Salford, England (designed by Michael Wilford and Buro Happold).
* 22 December – Nationalmuseum robbery: a self-portrait by Rembrandt and two Renoir paintings are stolen from the museum in Stockholm in Sweden.
*Full date unknown
**First publication of the Hockney–Falco thesis in art history.
**Constantine Andreou receives the Légion d'honneur.

Exhibitions

* Felix Gonzalez-Torres retrospective at the Serpentine Gallery, London
* Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
*Excessivism exhibition at the LA Artcore Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Works

* Lee Bae - ''issu du Feu'' (part of an ongoing series)
*Jake and Dinos Chapman – ''Hell''
*Eduardo Chillida – ''Berlin'' (sculpture)
*Martin Creed – '' Work No. 227: The lights going on and off'' (installation)
*Lucian Freud - ''After Cézanne''
*Diana Lee Jackson – Statue of Bill Bowerman (sculpture, Eugene, Oregon)
* Leo Lankinen (died 1996) – '' Cross of Sorrow'' (memorial in Russian Karelia)
* Lorenzo Pace – ''Triumph of the Human Spirit'' (public monument, Foley Square, New York City)
*Tad Savinar – ''Constellation'' (sculpture series, Portland, Oregon)
*Ian Sinclair, Jackie Staude, David Davies and Alistair Knox – Fairfield Industrial Dog Object
* Betty Spindler – ''Hot Dog'' (ceramic sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum)
*Paul Tzanetopoulos with Ted Tonio Tanaka architects – "Untitled" (kinetic light instillation, LAX, Los Angeles)
*Rachel Whiteread – Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial, Vienna
*Bill Woodrow –
Regardless of History
', for the Fourth plinth, Trafalgar Square, London
*Makoto Yukimura – ''Planetes''

Awards

*Archibald Prize – Adam Cullen, ''Portrait of David Wenham''
*Beck's Futures – Roderick Buchanan
*Hugo Boss Prize – Marjetica Potrč
*Turner Prize – Wolfgang Tillmans

Films

*''Pollock''

Deaths

*17 January – Norman Blamey, British painter (b. 1914)
*19 February – Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian painter, architect and sculptor (b. 1928)
*26 February – Louisa Matthíasdóttir, Icelandic-American painter (b. 1917)
*31 March – Gisèle Freund, German-born French photographer (b. 1908)
*15 April
**Edward Gorey, American illustrator (b. 1925)
**Todd Webb, American photographer (b. 1905)
*16 April – Henry Bird, British muralist (b. 1909)
*26 April – Gregory Gillespie, American magic realist painter (b. 1936)
*8 May – Stanley Boxer, American painter (b. 1926)
*3 June – Leonard Baskin, American sculptor, book-illustrator, wood-engraver, printmaker and graphic artist (b. 1922)
* 9 June – Jacob Lawrence, African American painter (b. 1917)
* 2 July - Constance Howard, English textile artist (b. 1910)
*10 July – Gertrud Arndt, German photographer (b. 1903)
*17 July – Aligi Sassu, Italian painter and sculptor (b. 1912)
*5 August – Tullio Crali, Italian Futurist painter (b. 1910)
*25 August – Carl Barks, American illustrator and comic book creator (b. 1901)
* 19 September – Anthony Robert Klitz, English artist (b. 1917)
* 19 October – Hans Moller, German born American painter
*3 December – Frank Roper, English metal sculptor and stained glass artist (b. 1914)
* 4 December – Ansgar Elde, Swedish ceramic artist (b. 1933)

References

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2000s in art
Years of the 20th century in art