🎭 Culture Jul 27, 2026 · Noelani Kirschner

Todd Stong

The American Scholar
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Todd Stong
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Multimedia artist Todd Stong believes that good art is “supposed to sharpen your awareness of the strangeness of what it is to be alive.” Five years ago, while studying abroad in Rome, Stong visited numerous galleries, tracing Michelangelo and Raphael’s footsteps through the city. He became captivated by how other Mannerist artists—Bronzino and Pontormo, for example—painted the human figure. “The Mannerists didn’t know how to draw; they just looked at other artists’ work and made stuff up,” he s

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