Events from the year 2000 in art. 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. 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 Jake and Dinos Chapman – Hell Eduardo Chillida – Berlin (sculpture) Martin Creed – Work No. 227: The lights going on and off (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 instillation, LAX, Los Angeles) 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 Films Pollock Deaths 17 January – Norman Blamey, British painter (b. 1914) 19 February – Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian painter, architect and sculptor (b. 1928) 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) Todd Webb, American photographer (b. 1905) 16