Artcurial charity auction cancelled after work showing Palestinian activist is pulled

Artcurial has cancelled a charity auction amid claims of censorship by Israel. The Paris-based auction house has announced that the sale, Artists on the Front Page, will no longer go ahead on 27 January, “by mutual agreement” with the organisers, the French newspaper Libération and press freedom advocacy group Reporters Sans Frontières. The newspaper says it ended the partnership “in the name of freedom of expression” after Artcurial bowed to pressure fr om