{"id":5653,"date":"2016-08-30T10:00:30","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T14:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=5653"},"modified":"2016-08-19T07:09:56","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T11:09:56","slug":"ellen-altfest-in-the-female-gaze-at-cheim-read-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/30\/ellen-altfest-in-the-female-gaze-at-cheim-read-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Ellen Altfest in &#8216;The Female Gaze&#8217; at Cheim &#038; Read Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Known for hyper-detailed renderings of the male body (among other natural subjects), Ellen Altfest\u2019s \u2018Leg\u2019 ponders the facts on a section of a man\u2019s leg. Veins, hair, and tiny blemishes are the ostensible subjects of the painting, but the limb gives off a vital glow, contrasting its grey surroundings and suggesting that even a fractional view of her subject bears close scrutiny. (At <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cheimread.com\/exhibitions\/the-female-gaze-part-two-women-look-at-men\" target=\"_blank\">Cheim &amp; Read Gallery<\/a> in \u2018The Female Gaze, Part Two: Women Look at Men\u2019 through Sept 2<sup>nd<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5654\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5654\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=5654\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5654\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5654\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ellen_altfest-300x221.jpg\" alt=\"Ellen Altfest, Leg, oil on linen, 8 x 11 x 1 \u00bd inches, 2010.\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ellen_altfest-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ellen_altfest-1200x883.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5654\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ellen Altfest, Leg, oil on linen, 8 x 11 x 1 \u00bd inches, 2010.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Known for hyper-detailed renderings of the male body (among other natural subjects), Ellen Altfest\u2019s \u2018Leg\u2019 ponders the facts on a section of a man\u2019s leg. Veins, hair, and tiny blemishes are the ostensible subjects of the painting, but the limb gives off a vital glow, contrasting its grey surroundings and suggesting that even a fractional &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/30\/ellen-altfest-in-the-female-gaze-at-cheim-read-gallery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ellen Altfest in &#8216;The Female Gaze&#8217; at Cheim &#038; Read Gallery&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,27,4],"tags":[8,147,18,2758,165,117,571,6282,432,1536,4667,6284,12,33,2041,6283,16],"class_list":["post-5653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-features-commissions","category-hottest-show","tag-art","tag-art-tour","tag-artist","tag-body","tag-cheim-and-read","tag-chelsea","tag-chelsea-tour","tag-ellen-altfest","tag-gallery-tour","tag-group-exhibition","tag-leg","tag-male","tag-new-york","tag-painting","tag-realism","tag-the-female-gaze","tag-tour"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-1tb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5655,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5653\/revisions\/5655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}