"Young Man As Bacchus" restituted. KANPE Foundation: Stéphane Brutus. Concordia divestment.
Concordia in the news
Posted on February 9, 2017
University affairs
Various issues concerning Concordia University are often reported on by news outlets. Here is the most recent coverage pertaining to the institution:
- There is extensive domestic and international news coverage of the return to the heirs of art dealer Max Stern of the 17th-century painting, “Young Man As Bacchus”, by Dutch painter Jan Franse Verzijl. The heirs, Concordia, McGill and Hebrew University, Jerusalem, are represented by the Max and Iris Stern Foundation and the Max Stern Art Restitution project, whose leader, senior director of Urban and Cultural Affairs Clarence Epstein, is quoted extensively in much of the news coverage. “Young Man As Bacchus” is among the estimated hundreds of thousands of pieces of art looted by the Nazis during the Second World War, with about 400 works still missing. The recovery of the painting is reported by the Wall Street Journal (see pdf, attached), UK Daily Mail, Deutsche Welle, CBC Montreal 11 pm news (video, starting at the 8:32 mark, and text), New York Post, Radio-Canada.ca (reprised by Huffington Post Québec) , CTV News Montreal (video and text, Epstein appearing at the 1:13 mark, reposted by The Loop), Montreal Gazette (reprised by Canada.com), Montreal Gazette e-edition, La Presse +, Le Journal de Montréal, CBSnews.com, Israel National News, Agence France-Presse (picked up by Le Devoir,TVAnouvelles.ca, Le Point, France, El Pais, in Spanish, Zeit, in German, Yahoo! News), Associated Press (picked up by Boston Globe, NBCboston.com, San Fransisco Gate, GlobalNews.ca, Northumberland News, Durham Region, 570news.com, AP raw video, NBCwasington.com Standard Times, The Korea Herald, AuburnPub.com,Caledonian Record, New Zealand News Now, Voice of Alexandria, KDWN.com, NECN.com), Art Daily, Equilibrio Informativo, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and dozens of others. Clarence Epstein is interviewed for the Radio Canada Première Chaîne program, 'Le 15-18'. Finally, the news is reported in a release issued by the FBI in New York, whose investigation led to the recovery of the painting.
- The interim dean of the John Molson School of Business and professor in the Department of Management, Stéphane Brutus, is profiled in Montréal Centre-Ville for his work as chairman of the board of the KANPE Foundation. He discusses KANPE's financing campaign to support the foundation's humanitarian work in Haiti. .
- The National Observer, writing about the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project between Alberta and the west coast, notes that Concordia was the first university to initiate an oil divestment fund.