Christie’s Website Still Down Hours Before Evening Sales, Causing Concerns

With just hours to go before Christie’s evening sales on Tuesday night, the auction house’s website was still down following a cyberattack. Art advisers and collectors expressed concern to ARTnews about how this could affect sales of more than $500 million worth of art amid an already challenging market for consignors, with very few estates on the block.“It makes you wonder who did it. Whoever did that was intentional about timing,” art adviser Elizabeth Fiore told ARTnew