2000 in art

Events from the year 2000 in art.

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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.^[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

See also: Category:2000 sculptures

• 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 – , 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 (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)

References

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