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...Cowan, PARIS...
...shares a wall with works by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Edgar Degas, and an anonymous nineteenth-century artist in Rajasthan, India, among others. The show is organized thematically rather than chronologically or geographically. The seemingly incongruous juxtapositions create a surreal space in which a punch bowl from a 1931 Cowan Pottery Studio Jazz Bowl Series is a blaze of blue and black abstraction behind a case containing Mayan cylinder vases and Greek oil flasks. Ackley cites two original sites of inquiry: his desire to look at a Goya drawing next to a Hokusai print and his desire to consider Maya...
...Cowan, whose 11-year tenure as dean of Annenberg School for Communication in California ended in July, the fellowship marks a return to his college stomping grounds. He became interested in journalism as an undergraduate at Harvard where he joined the staff of The Crimson in 1961, writing his first story about those hoping to join the administration of President John F. Kennedy...
...Cowan also spent time fundraising for a civil rights newspaper founded in 1965 by two Harvard juniors...
...Shorenstein Center, Cowan will conduct research on business models for newspapers...