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The year 2000 in art involved some significant events.

Events

• May 12 - Opening of the Tate Modern.
• 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

Awards

• Archibald Prize - Adam Cullen, Portrait of David Wenham
• Beck's Futures - Roderick Buchanan
• Turner Prize - Wolfgang Tillmans

Deaths

• February 19 - Friedensreich Hundertwasser, artist and architect (b. 1928)
• February 26 - Louisa Matthíasdóttir, painter (b. 1917)
• April 26 - Gregory Gillespie, painter (b. 1936)
• May 14 - Garrett Eckbo, landscape architect (b. 1910)
• June 9 - Jacob Lawrence, painter (b. 1917)
• December 4 - Ansgar Elde, ceramic artist (b. 1933)