Jillian Rayfield

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Jillian Rayfield

The Saatchi Gallery is displaying over 500 works that have used nature as inspiration and even included floral material. "La Fleur Morte" by the British artist Rebecca Louise Law is one of two large-scale immersive installations in the exhibition "Flowers - Flora in Contemporary Art & Culture" at the Saatchi Gallery in London. Visitors can walk among the more than 100,000 dried flowers draped from the ceiling. Credit...

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Jillian Rayfield |Robert Ormerod

A new land-reform bill aims to unwind a long history of inequality. But centuries of feudalism are difficult to shake. The Loch Tay area of the Scottish Highlands has long attracted visitors in search of stunning scenery, outdoor adventure and a glimpse of Taymouth Castle, a lavish neo-Gothic estate that sits in the shadows of the green Grampian Mountains. Built in the early 1800s by the once-powerful Campbell clan, Taymouth Castle has had a bit of a bumpy road.

Sep 17, 2024 | nytimes.com | Jillian Rayfield

When golf pros and fans pull up to England's Wentworth Club for the BMW PGA Championship, they'll be driving in over a little-known slice of World War II history. About 30 feet under the club's parking lot is a sprawling bunker that was constructed by the British military and used after the war's outbreak in 1939.

Jun 28, 2024 | nytimes.com | Jillian Rayfield

This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. To many fashionable women in the mid-20th century, no hat was worth wearing unless it was made by Otto Lucas. A London-based milliner, Lucas designed chic turbans, berets and cloches, often made from luxe velvets and silks and adorned with flowers or feathers.

May 20, 2024 | seattletimes.com | Claire Moses |Jillian Rayfield

DUBLIN — The Portal is back. For now. At 11 a.m. in Dublin on Monday, a big, round art installation that livestreams video between Dublin’s city center and the Flatiron district in Manhattan returned after being shut off May 14 because of questionable behavior by visitors on both sides. Some of that behavior showed up in videos on social media that showed an OnlyFans model lifting her shirt in New York and people in Dublin displaying swastikas and images of the World Trade Center attack on Sept.