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 – ' (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 installation, LAX, Los Angeles)
• Rachel Whiteread – Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial, Vienna
• Bill Woodrow – Regardless of History, for the Fourth plinth, Trafalgar Square, London
• Makoto Yukimura – Planetes