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Events from the year 2000 in art.

Events edit

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.

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

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 instillation, 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

17 January – Norman Blamey, British painter (b. 1914)
19 February – Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian painter, architect and sculptor (b. 1928)^[8]
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)^[9]
- 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)^[10]
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)

^ "'Peanuts' still remembered, loved today – Marquette Wire". Archived from the original on 19 August 2018. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
^ "Two charged in $7 million fake-art scheme - US news - Crime & courts | NBC News". NBC News. Archived from the original on 19 August 2018. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
^ Falco, Charles M.; Hockney, David. "Optical Insights into Renaissance Art". Optics & Photonics News. 11.
^ Monnier, Florence (15 December 2020). "Issu du feu, Lee Bae". Fondation Maeght.
^ Abbott, Kate (16 June 2015). "Jake and Dinos Chapman: how we made Hell | Art and design". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 19 August 2018. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
^ "Lucian Freud | After Cezanne". Archived from the original on 19 April 2021. Retrieved 19 April 2021.
^ "Paul Tzanetopoulos, LAX Gateway Pylon Project Kinetic Light Installation (Untitled)". Archived from the original on 27 March 2020. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
^ Martin Pawley (14 April 2000). "Friedensreich Hundertwasse – Maverick architect building against the grain". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 26 August 2021. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
^ Kelley, Tina (16 April 2000). "Edward Gorey, Eerie Illustrator And Writer, 75". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 24 October 2020. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
^ Barnes, Bart (6 June 2000). "Sculptor, Graphic Artist Leonard Baskin, 77, Dies". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 28 August 2017. Retrieved 28 May 2020.