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)