2000 in art

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 have to withdraw a forgery of Paul Gauguin's Vase de Fleurs from auction.
• 11 May – Official opening of the Tate Modern in London.
• 12 October – Official opening of The Lowry theatre and gallery centre in Salford, England.
• Full date unknown – 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

  Works

• Jake and Dinos Chapman – Hell
• Eduardo Chillida – Berlin
• Diana Lee Jackson – Statue of Bill Bowerman
• Leo Lankinen – Cross of Sorrow
• Tad Savinar – Constellation
• Ian Sinclair, Jackie Staude, David Davies and Alistair Knox – Fairfield Industrial Dog Object
• Betty Spindler – Hot Dog at LAX in Los Angeles
• 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
• 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
• 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