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 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.
- 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
- Jake and Dinos Chapman – Hell
- Eduardo Chillida – Berlin
- Martin Creed – Work No. 227: The lights going on and off
- Lucian Freud - After Cézanne
- Diana Lee Jackson – Statue of Bill Bowerman
- Leo Lankinen – Cross of Sorrow
- Lorenzo Pace – Triumph of the Human Spirit
- Tad Savinar – Constellation
- Ian Sinclair, Jackie Staude, David Davies and Alistair Knox – Fairfield Industrial Dog Object
- Betty Spindler – Hot Dog
- Paul Tzanetopoulos with Ted Tonio Tanaka architects – "Untitled"
- Rachel Whiteread – Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial, Vienna
- Bill Woodrow – , 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
- 19 February – Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian painter, architect and sculptor
- 26 February – Louisa Matthíasdóttir, Icelandic-American painter
- 31 March – Gisèle Freund, German-born French photographer
- 15 April
- *Edward Gorey, American illustrator
- *Todd Webb, American photographer
- 16 April – Henry Bird, British muralist
- 26 April – Gregory Gillespie, American magic realist painter
- 8 May – Stanley Boxer, American painter
- 3 June – Leonard Baskin, American sculptor, book-illustrator, wood-engraver, printmaker and graphic artist
- 9 June – Jacob Lawrence, African American painter
- 2 July - Constance Howard, English textile artist
- 10 July – Gertrud Arndt, German photographer
- 17 July – Aligi Sassu, Italian painter and sculptor
- 5 August – Tullio Crali, Italian Futurist painter
- 25 August – Carl Barks, American illustrator and comic book creator
- 19 September – Anthony Robert Klitz, English artist
- 19 October – Hans Moller, German born American painter
- 3 December – Frank Roper, English metal sculptor and stained glass artist
- 4 December – Ansgar Elde, Swedish ceramic artist