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.
• 9 March – The FBI arrests art forgery suspect Ely Sakhai in New York City.
• 12 May – Opening of the Tate Modern in London.
• 12 October – Official opening of The Lowry theatre and gallery centre in Salford, England (designed by Michael Wilford and Buro Happold).

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• 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

• Eduardo Chillida – Berlin
• Ian Sinclair, Jackie Staude, David Davies and Alistair Knox – Fairfield Industrial Dog Object
• Rachel Whiteread – Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial, Vienna
• Bill Woodrow – Regardless of History, 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

Deaths

• 19 February – Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian painter, architect and sculptor (b.1928)
• 26 February – Louisa Matthíasdóttir, Icelandic-American painter (b. 1917)
• 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)
• 9 June – Jacob Lawrence, American painter (b. 1917)
• 17 July – Aligi Sassu, Italian painter and sculptor (b. 1912)
• 25 August – Carl Barks, American illustrator and comic book creator (b. 1901)
• 19 September – Anthony Robert Klitz, English artist (b. 1917)
• 4 December – Ansgar Elde, Swedish ceramic artist (b. 1933)