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To receive\u00a0Morning Links\u00a0in your inbox every weekday,\u00a0sign\u00a0up\u00a0for our\u00a0<\/em>Breakfast with ARTnews\u00a0newsletter<\/em>.<\/p>\n The Headlines<\/strong><\/p>\n BEARING WITNESS<\/strong>. Today, the acclaimed French-Lebanese artist Ali Cherri<\/strong>, together with the International Federation for Human Rights<\/strong>, filed a complaint with the French War Crimes Unit against \u201cunknown perpetrators,\u201d and denouncing the Israeli army\u2019s bombing of civilian homes in Lebanon, according to a press release. On November 26, 2024, hours before a ceasefire, Cherri\u2019s parents, Mahmoud Naim Cherri and Nadira Hayek, were killed when the Israeli military bombed their apartment in Beirut<\/strong>. The attack killed a total of seven people. Targeting a civilian home \u201ccould constitute a war crime under French criminal law and international humanitarian law,\u201d reads the statement. \u201cMy sisters and I decided to legally pursue this case a year ago. It was an important but deeply difficult decision,\u201d wrote Ali Cherri on Instagram.\u00a0<\/p>\n THE PRICE IS RIGHT<\/strong>. India\u2019s art market is being bullish right now, as shown by a Raja Ravi Varma<\/strong> painting that sold on Wednesday for $17.9 million with fees, setting a new auction record for a South Asian painting, reports the Art Newspaper<\/em>. Pharmaceuticals billionaire Cyrus Poonawalla<\/strong>\u00a0bought the painting titled Yashoda and Krishna<\/em> (1890s), topping its $12.9 million high estimate. The sale dethrones an MF Husain<\/strong> painting that sold for $13.7 million with fees at Christie\u2019s New York<\/strong> last year. Calling the painting a national treasure, Poonawalla said in a statement that he plans to ensure the public will be able to view it \u201cperiodically.\u201d<\/p>\n The Digest<\/strong><\/p>\n A new open letter signed by 70 artists and curators participating in this year\u2019s Venice Biennale\u00a0<\/strong>calls for banning the US, Russia, and Israel from the global event. [Artnet News]<\/p>\n S\u00e3o Paulo<\/strong> has \u201cregained one of the world\u2019s great public spaces,\u201d with a new extension project of the city\u2019s Museum of Art (MASP),<\/strong> designed by Lina Bo Bardi.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0[Apollo Magazine]<\/p>\n \n\tThe White House<\/strong> has immediately appealed a judge\u2019s decision to stop the construction on President Trump<\/strong>\u2019s ballroom project, while polling shows any Congressional review of the architectural plans is expected to spark heated debate. [The Washington Post]<\/p>\n La Biennale de Qu\u00e9bec<\/strong>, featuring work by 60 international artists until April 19, looks at ice as a metaphor and medium with its theme \u201cBriser la glace\/Splitting Ice.\u201d [Observer]<\/p>\n The Kicker<\/strong><\/p>\n SEARLE<\/strong>AN IMPOSTER?<\/strong> As ARTnews<\/em> reported earlier this year, the Guardian<\/em>\u2019s chief art critic Adrian Searle<\/strong> is stepping down from his role, held since 1996. As an end note, he shared his insights and confessions in response to what proved to be a tricky question from his editor about what he learned over the course of 30 years on the job. Rather, Searle wrote\u00a0about what he has seen, despite things converging into a \u201cwatery blur.\u201d With time, it becomes hard to know what was \u201cimagined or real,\u201d he says. \u201cThe work came to me first as a story and has never left me.\u201d This, from a seasoned critic who admits to a feeling of imposter syndrome that he\u2019s \u201calways had and never really goes away.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/artist-ali-cherri-files-complaint-after-israeli-army-kills-his-parents-indian-painting-sets-auction-record-morning-links-for-april-2-2026-1234779693\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ALI-CHERRI-PORTRAIT_00000000-046c-7fc4-0000-0000000221b3-1.jpg?w=1024″] To receive\u00a0Morning Links\u00a0in your inbox every weekday,\u00a0sign\u00a0up\u00a0for our\u00a0Breakfast with ARTnews\u00a0newsletter. 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Today, the acclaimed French-Lebanese artist Ali Cherri, together with the International Federation for Human Rights, filed a complaint with the French War Crimes Unit against \u201cunknown perpetrators,\u201d and denouncing the Israeli army\u2019s bombing of civilian homes in Lebanon, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-1861937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1861937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1861937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1861937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1861937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}