2000 in art
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- 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.[1]
- 9 March – The FBI arrests art forgery suspect Ely Sakhai in New York City.[2]
- 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.[3]
- 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)[4]
- Jake and Dinos Chapman – Hell[5]
- Eduardo Chillida – Berlin (sculpture)
- Martin Creed – Work No. 227: The lights going on and off (installation)
- Lucian Freud - After Cézanne[6]
- 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 installation, LAX, Los Angeles)[7]
- Rachel Whiteread – Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial, Vienna
- Bill Woodrow – Regardless of History, for the Fourth plinth, Trafalgar Square, London
- Makoto Yukimura – Planetes