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How Rodin found beauty in deformity
Did a grisly medical museum inspire the twisted forms that led the sculptor to his breakthrough?
1 May 2021 • 12:00pm
Critics compared Rodin s tiny sculptures of hands and limbs, which he called giblets , to exhibits in museums of anatomy and pathology
Credit: Musée Rodin
Art and science seem chalk and cheese in our own time, but scroll back 150 years and they were enthusiastic bedfellows. Any swish soirée in Vienna or Paris would have included as many neurologists as novelists, and nobody batted an eyelid when, in London in August 1881, specimens relating to a lavish medical congress were exhibited next to the Royal Academy of Art in a temporary “museum”.
Grieder: Ghost candidate saga in Texas House race highlights risk of crying wolf about voter fraud
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Richard Bonton, a former candidate for State Rep 142 (D), was indicted in December 2020 on election fraud charges for his alleged role in the campaign of a “ghost” candidate in this year’s Democratic primary.Jill Karnicki, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
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Harold V. Dutton Jr., left, and Jerry Davis, right, faced off in a July runoff to be the Democratic nominee for House District 142. The runoff was forced after a “ghost” candidate pulled 20 percent of the vote in the March primary.Jill Karnicki, Staff photographer / Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg announced Friday that three people had been indicted over attempts to influence two Texas House races during the 2020 election cycle. Credit: Kelly West for The Texas Tribune
A Harris County grand jury has indicted three people who tried to illegally influence races in two Houston-area state House districts during the 2020 election cycle, District Attorney Kim Ogg announced Friday.
The impacted districts were House District 132 and House District 142, currently represented by state Reps. Gina Calanni, D-Katy, and Harold Dutton, D-Houston, respectively. Dutton s reelection bid made headlines earlier this year after questions were raised about whether one of the candidates on the ballot in his March primary actually existed. None of the allegations involved the voting process or the casting of illegal ballots.
‘Highest crime you can commit’: Incumbent into runoff because of ‘ghost candidate’ reacts to charges in case
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HOUSTON – Earlier this year, State Rep. Harold Dutton (D-Houston) faced his first runoff in his 36 years of representing District 142, and it was all because of a candidate who prosecutors said never existed.
Dutton got the highest number of votes during the Democratic primary in March, but not enough to avoid a runoff with the second- and third-place finishers.
Prosecutors said Friday that an investigation revealed that the third-place candidate, Natasha Ruiz, was actually Natasha Demming, who filed under a false name. Prosecutors accused Demming of conspiring with Richard Bonton, who was another candidate in the District 142 race, to manipulate the vote.