2000 in art
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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.{{Cite web |url=https://marquettewire.org/3987108/ae/peanuts-still-remembered-loved-today/ |title = 'Peanuts' still remembered, loved today – Marquette Wire |access-date=19 August 2018 |archive-date=19 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180819182215/https://marquettewire.org/3987108/ae/peanuts-still-remembered-loved-today/ |url-status=live }}
- 9 March – The FBI arrests art forgery suspect Ely Sakhai in New York City.{{Cite web |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna5219352 |title = Two charged in $7 million fake-art scheme - US news - Crime & courts |website = NBC News |date = 16 June 2004 |access-date=19 August 2018 |archive-date=19 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180819150048/http://www.nbcnews.com/id/5219352/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/t/two-charged-fake-art-scheme/#.W3lbeegzaUk |url-status=live }}
- 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.{{cite journal|authorlink1=Charles M. Falco|first1=Charles M.|last1=Falco|authorlink2=David Hockney|first2=David|last2=Hockney|title=Optical Insights into Renaissance Art|journal=Optics & Photonics News|date=2000 |volume=11|issue=7 |page=52 |doi=10.1364/OPN.11.7.000052 |bibcode=2000OptPN..11...52H }}
- 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){{Cite web|url=https://www.fondation-maeght.com/issu-du-feu-lee-bae/|title=Issu du feu, Lee Bae|first=Florence|last=Monnier|date=15 December 2020|website=Fondation Maeght}}
- Jake and Dinos Chapman – Hell{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/jun/16/jake-and-dinos-chapman-how-we-made-hell |title = Jake and Dinos Chapman: how we made Hell {{!}} Art and design |work= The Guardian |date = 16 June 2015 |access-date=19 August 2018 |archive-date=19 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180819150114/https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/jun/16/jake-and-dinos-chapman-how-we-made-hell |url-status=live |last1 = Abbott |first1 = Kate }}
- Eduardo Chillida – Berlin (sculpture)
- Martin Creed – Work No. 227: The lights going on and off (installation)
- Lucian Freud - After Cézanne{{Cite web |url=https://nga.gov.au/freud/#:~:text=Lucian%20Freud's%20After%20C%C3%A9zanne%20is,Paul%20C%C3%A9zanne's%20Afternoon%20in%20Naples.&text=After%20C%C3%A9zanne%20was%20Freud's%20principal,charcoal%20and%20then%20in%20paint |title = Lucian Freud {{!}} After Cezanne |access-date=19 April 2021 |archive-date=19 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210419090449/https://nga.gov.au/freud/#:~:text=Lucian%20Freud's%20After%20C%C3%A9zanne%20is,Paul%20C%C3%A9zanne's%20Afternoon%20in%20Naples.&text=After%20C%C3%A9zanne%20was%20Freud's%20principal,charcoal%20and%20then%20in%20paint |url-status=live }}
- 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){{Cite web |url=http://www.publicartinla.com/sculptures/lax_gateway.html |title = Paul Tzanetopoulos, LAX Gateway Pylon Project Kinetic Light Installation (Untitled) |access-date=27 March 2020 |archive-date=27 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200327100849/http://www.publicartinla.com/sculptures/lax_gateway.html |url-status=usurped }}
- Rachel Whiteread – Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial, Vienna
- Bill Woodrow – [https://web.archive.org/web/20110801021328/http://www.sculpture.org.uk/BillWoodrow/sculpture/regardless-of-history/ Regardless of History], for the Fourth plinth, Trafalgar Square, London
- Makoto Yukimura – Planetes
Awards
Films
Deaths
- 17 January – Norman Blamey, British painter (b. 1914){{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/jan/25/guardianobituaries1|title=Norman Blamey|date=25 January 2000|website=The Guardian|author=Andrew Wilton|access-date=17 August 2024}}
- 19 February – Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian painter, architect and sculptor (b. 1928){{cite web|author=Martin Pawley|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/apr/14/guardianobituaries2|title=Friedensreich Hundertwasse – Maverick architect building against the grain|website=The Guardian|date=14 April 2000|access-date=26 August 2021|archive-date=26 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210826134803/https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/apr/14/guardianobituaries2|url-status=live}}
- 26 February – Louisa Matthíasdóttir, Icelandic-American painter (b. 1917){{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/02/arts/louisa-matthiasdottir-83-whose-paintings-merged-styles.html |title=Louisa Matthiasdottir, 83, Whose Paintings Merged Styles|date=March 2, 2000|author=Roberta Smith|work=The New York Times |access-date=17 August 2024}}
- 31 March – Gisèle Freund, German-born French photographer (b. 1908){{cite web|title=Gisele Freund Obituary|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/apr/01/guardianobituaries1|website=The Guardian|date=April 2000|access-date=22 January 2018}}
- 15 April
- Edward Gorey, American illustrator (b. 1925){{cite news| last = Kelley| first = Tina| title = Edward Gorey, Eerie Illustrator And Writer, 75| newspaper = The New York Times| date = April 16, 2000| url = https://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/16/nyregion/edward-gorey-eerie-illustrator-and-writer-75.html| access-date = 26 August 2021| archive-date = 24 October 2020| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20201024125947/https://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/16/nyregion/edward-gorey-eerie-illustrator-and-writer-75.html| url-status = live}}
- Todd Webb, American photographer (b. 1905){{cite news |title= Todd Webb, 94, Peripatetic Photographer |newspaper= The New York Times |date= April 22, 2000|url= https://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/22/arts/todd-webb-94-peripatetic-photographer.html |access-date= August 17, 2024}}
- 16 April – Henry Bird, British muralist (b. 1909){{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/may/11/guardianobituaries.ianmayes|author=Ian Mayes|title=Henry Bird Obituary|date=11 May 2000|website=The Guardian|access-date=17 August 2024}}
- 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){{Cite news|last=Barnes|first=Bart|date=June 6, 2000|title=Sculptor, Graphic Artist Leonard Baskin, 77, Dies|newspaper=The Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2000/06/06/sculptor-graphic-artist-leonard-baskin-77-dies/9f9cfc53-68d0-45d1-8080-52f66d24c51d/|access-date=May 28, 2020|archive-date=28 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170828195803/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2000/06/06/sculptor-graphic-artist-leonard-baskin-77-dies/9f9cfc53-68d0-45d1-8080-52f66d24c51d/|url-status=live}}
- 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){{cite web|url=https://www.majorcadailybulletin.com/news/local/2000/07/19/1070/artist-aligi-sassu-dies-aged-88.html|website=Majorca Daily Bulletin|date=19 July 2000|title=Artist Aligi Sassu dies aged 88|access-date=17 August 2024}}
- 5 August – Tullio Crali, Italian Futurist painter (b. 1910){{cn|date=August 2024}}
- 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)
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