Jillian Rayfield

Assistant Editor at The New York Times

Assistant editor @nytimes London via NYC

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London Brings Its Own Musical Touch to South by Southwest

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Jillian Rayfield

London Brings Its Own Musical Touch to South by SouthwestThe festival, which has a long association with music, presents an opportunity for London acts to perform on a bigger stage. When South by Southwest first began in Austin, Texas, in 1987, the Shoreditch neighborhood in East London was still filled with empty warehouses. But it was beginning to …
South by Southwest London Has Its Own Musical Touch

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Jillian Rayfield

The festival, which has a long association with music, presents an opportunity for London acts to perform on a bigger stage. When South by Southwest first began in Austin, Texas, in 1987, the Shoreditch neighborhood in East London was still filled with empty warehouses. But it was beginning to attract a wave of artists who would help it eventually become synonymous with music and culture.
A family legacy: When the stars come to Cannes, a Traverso is there to take pictures

3 weeks ago | nzherald.co.nz | Jillian Rayfield

Gilles Traverso is the third in a line of photographers from his family to capture the film elite every year of the Cannes Film Festival. When the Cannes Film Festival begins this week, it will be its 78th year. And in each one of those years, a member of the Traverso family will have been there to photograph it.
When the Stars Come, a Traverso Is There for Pictures

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Jillian Rayfield

Gilles Traverso is the third in a line of photographers from his family to capture the film elite every year of the Cannes Film Festival. When the Cannes Film Festival begins this week, it will be its 78th year. And in each one of those years, a member of the Traverso family will have been there to photograph it.
London's Saatchi Gallery Focuses on Flowers in This Exhibition

1 month 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...
Who Gets to Own Scotland?

Feb 26, 2025 | 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.
Under Wentworth, Remnants of World War II

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.
Otto Lucas, 'God in the Hat World'

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.
Dublin-New York Portal reopens after flashing, other shenanigans

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.
Dawn Powell’s Writing Has Been Rediscovered. What About Her Grave?

Sep 28, 2023 | drudge-report.net | Jillian Rayfield

The satirist, who died in 1965, was buried in a potter’s field in the Bronx. Now some of her admirers are thinking about how to commemorate her. Read More