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Christie's website hit by major cyberattack hours before huge auction

Auction house forced to set up alternative solutions as its main website remains offline.

TechRadar

Christie’s says $850m auctions to go ahead as planned despite cyber-attack

Sales to proceed despite failing to regain control of its website as staff and cybersecurity scramble to fix issue

The Guardian - US

Art world gavel-to-gavel: Spring auctions kick off in New York despite market setbacks, cyberattacks

With sales of $14.9 billion last year, the art market saw a 14 percent drop compared to 2022

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New York Gears Up For Major Spring Auctions After Soft 2023

New York's major auction houses were preparing for the start of their all-important Spring sales on Monday even as Christie's came under a cyberattack that affected its website.

International Business Times

Now You Can Reduce Your Impact on the Planet by Reusing Vivienne Westwood's Personal Wardrobe

Christie's just announced that it's gotten a hold of Westwood's wonderfully weird wardrobe and is auctioning it off for great causes.

Fashion Times

‘Pretty incredible’: Vivienne Westwood’s personal wardrobe to be auctioned

Most of 200-plus lots are complete looks, with some showing signs of repeated mending by late designer

The Guardian - UK

Vivienne Westwood’s personal wardrobe goes up for sale in landmark Christie’s auction

The proceeds of ’Vivienne Westwood: The Personal Collection’, running this June, will go to the charitable causes she championed during her lifetime

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Vivienne Westwood's personal wardrobe to go under the hammer at Christie's…but not before one final show

Clothes and jewellery belonging to the late legendary fashion designer, who died in 2022, to be auctioned for good causes

Evening Standard

Michelangelo's Scribble Sells For $200,000 At New York Auction

A square scribbled on a yellowed piece of paper by Renaissance genius Michelangelo sold for $201,600 -- 33 times its estimated value, auction house Christie's said Wednesday.

International Business Times

‘The money is not real – it’s a feckless level of wealth’: the inside story of the biggest art fraud in American history

Orlando Whitfield was a student when he became best friends with Inigo Philbrick, ‘the art world’s Bernie Madoff’. He talks about how their decade of hustling would lead one to a breakdown – and the other to jail

The Guardian - UK

Schumacher F1 watch collection could top $4 million in auction

On 13 May, in the week leading up to the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, Christie’s Auction House will be offering a selection of watches from the personal collection of the seven-time world champion in an auction in Geneva.

Motorsport

Christie’s withdraws Greek vases from auction over links to convicted dealer

Exclusive: four vases in New York auction traced to Gianfranco Becchina, convicted in 2011 of illegally dealing in antiquities

The Guardian - UK

Take a Tour of Toronto's Illuminarium

Pro AV technology drives the immersive 'tour of the universe.'

AVNetwork

Takabumi Asahi Named New CEO of Christie

He has been moving up the corporate ladder of parent company Ushio since 2017.

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182,000-Lumen Immersive Projection Lights Up... a Coffee Machine?

Christie projectors shine bright on launch of the new Nescafé Dolce Gusto.

The Hindu

Art for Baby | Indian baby book’s journey to Christie’s

15 renowned artists, backed by a 16-year-old curator, have created high-contrast artwork for infants that is now being auctioned

Evening Standard

Pattie Boyd on love and life in the sixties: ‘Beatlemania? It was kind of irritating’

Pattie Boyd has opened her archive for a new Christie’s sale which reveals the passion and heartbreak behind her love triangle with George Harrison and Eric Clapton. She tells Joe Bromley about her life in the sixties (and the clothes she wore)

International Business Times

Digital Disruption In The Art Market: How Major Players Are Adapting

The precondition for the NFT boom is often attributed to the sale of an NFT artwork for $69 million at an art auction. This particular artwork, created by Beeple, was auctioned online by Christie's in March 2021.

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Eric Clapton's Love Letters To Pattie Boyd Up For Auction

Explore the love letters and artifacts from Eric Clapton, Pattie Boyd, and George Harrison's love triangle at Christie's upcoming auction.

Louder

"What I wish to ask you is if you still love your husband, or if you have another lover?" Eric Clapton's love letter to seduce Pattie Boyd when she was married to his friend George Harrison is quite something

Pattie Boyd, the English model/photographer who was married to Eric Clapton and George Harrison, is auctioning a selection of her personal possessions, including revealing love letters

The Guardian - UK

Split glove ‘worn by Muhammad Ali in Henry Cooper fight’ to be sold at auction

Somerset auctioneer who says he has genuine left boxing glove from 1963 match hopes to fetch up to £500,000

MusicRadar

Goodbye, Yamaha grand piano: Elton John sells his 1992 C6 model for more than $200,000 at auction

A Banksy and a pair of silver leather boots also went under the hammer

International Business Times

Elton John Items Fetch $8 Million At New York Auction

Nearly $100,000 for Elton John's monogrammed silver boots and around $2 million for a triptych by street artist Banksy from his collection: the music icon's personal items brought in almost $8 million at auction Wednesday in New York.

The Guardian - UK

Elton John to auction off 900 items worth $10m from former Atlanta home

Silver boots, Banksy original, pinball machine and more going under hammer at Christie’s, New York

Evening Standard

The best items money can buy at the Le Gavroche Christie's auction

The now closed London restaurant is auctioning off everything from wine to artworks

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