Timeline · 2000–2009
The 2000s (2000–2009) fall within the contemporary era and works only lately entering the public domain. Across these years the gallery holds 1,938 public-domain artworks, with Contemporary Abstract the decade's dominant movement (68 works) and East London Printmakers among its most prolific hands.
Saint Michael 2000 
Portrait of a Woman, Said to Be Caritas Pirckheimer (1467–1532) 2000 
Still Life with a Poor Man's Meal of Porridge, Cheese, Herring and Pancakes 2000 
Lumumba 2000 
Portrait of Emperor Charles V in armour 2000 
Προσωπογραφία του Θεμιστοκλή Βισβίζη 2009 
Προσωπογραφία του Σαμουήλ Γκρίντλεϋ Χάου 2009 
Προσωπογραφία του Chateaubriand 2009 
Selbstportrait 2005 
Η Ναυμαχία του Ναυαρίνου 2009 
Προσωπογραφία του Αχιλλέα Αγγέλου Γέροντα 2009 
Painting 2005 
Προσωπογραφία Αγωνιστή του 1821 2009 
Painting 2000 
Η Επανάσταση 3ης Σεπτεμβρίου 1843 2009 
History of the Siege of Lisbon 2006 
Λιμάνι της Πάρου 2009 
Οι 28 πρώτοι σουλτάνοι της Οθωμανικής Αυτοκρατορίας 2009 
Η Αψίδα του Γαλέριου στη Θεσσαλονίκη 2009 
Προσωπογραφία του Αλεξάνδρου Μαυροκορδάτου 2009 
Προσωπογραφία του Κωνσταντίνου Α' 2009 
Τορπιλλισμός του τουρκικού θωρηκτού "Φετίχ- Μπουλέντ", στο λιμάνι της Θεσσαλονίκης το 1912 2009 
Fraenkel, Pierre - Malerei, Circus II 2005 
Προσωπογραφία της Όλγας 2009 Looking for named art-historical periods instead? Browse periods.
Austrian police recovered Benvenuto Cellini's Saliera, the celebrated gold, enamel, ebony, and ivory salt cellar stolen from Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum in 2003. The exact…
The recovery returned one of the most important surviving Renaissance goldsmith works to public view in Vienna.
What else happened that dayThe Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles opened WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution at the Geffen Contemporary on March 4, 2007. Organized by MOCA curator Connie Butler, the…
It helped canonize feminist art as a central field of postwar and contemporary art history.
What else happened that dayOn February 23, 2009, at 7 p.m., the first session of the Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Berge collection auction opened in Paris with Impressionist and modern art lots. Organized…
The auction reset expectations for single-owner collection sales and intensified debates over masterpiece markets and cultural restitution.
What else happened that dayOn March 11, 2005, the Brooklyn Museum opened Basquiat, a major retrospective devoted to Jean-Michel Basquiat in the borough where he was born and first encountered museums as a…
The exhibition helped consolidate Basquiat's museum canon for a broad post-2000 audience.
What else happened that dayOn February 25, 2009, Christie's Paris sold two 18th-century bronze fountainheads, a rat and a rabbit from the Chinese zodiac group looted from the Old Summer Palace in 1860, as…
The failed sale intensified debate over repatriating looted Chinese cultural objects from Western collections.
What else happened that dayOn February 24, 2006, armed thieves stole four modern masterworks from the Museu da Chacara do Ceu in Rio de Janeiro: Salvador Dali's Man of Sickly Complexion Listening to the…
The missing works became an enduring example of the vulnerability of public collections during mass events.
What else happened that dayThe Brooklyn Museum opened "Global Feminisms" at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, the new feminist art center that opened the same day on the museum's fourth…
It made global contemporary feminist art a first-order museum subject rather than a regional or historical specialty.
What else happened that dayOn February 10, 2008, armed robbers stole four paintings from the Foundation E. G. Buehrle Collection in Zurich: Paul Cezanne's Boy in the Red Vest, Edgar Degas's Count Lepic and…
The theft became a reference point for security risks around small high-value collections.
What else happened that dayOn March 24, 2002, the Philadelphia Museum of Art opened Barnett Newman, a major retrospective organized with Tate Modern and on view in Philadelphia through July 7 before…
The retrospective renewed institutional and scholarly attention to Newman as a central figure of postwar abstraction.
What else happened that dayOn January 26, 2001, Sendai Mediatheque opened in Sendai, Japan. Designed by Toyo Ito after a 1995 public competition, the building combined library, gallery, film, studio, and…
It became one of Toyo Ito's defining works and a model for flexible media-oriented cultural buildings.
What else happened that dayAfrica Remix: Contemporary Art of a Continent opened its Hayward Gallery presentation in London on February 10, 2005, after debuting at Museum Kunstpalast in Dusseldorf. Curated…
The exhibition expanded museum audiences for contemporary African art while sharpening debates about global survey shows.
What else happened that dayThe Getty Villa reopened on January 28, 2006, after a long renovation that redefined the Malibu site as the J. Paul Getty Museum's dedicated center for Greek, Roman, and Etruscan…
The reopening made the Villa a specialized public home for the Getty's antiquities program.
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