National Portrait Gallery This article is more than 5 years old'Hatchet fiend' suffragette celebrated by National Portrait Gallery in LondonThis article is more than 5 years oldAnne Hunt slashed a Millais painting with a cleaver in 1914 She became known in newspapers as a “hatchet fiend”, “wild woman” and the “Fury with a chopper” after walking in to the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) with a hidden butcher’s cleaver and slashing a painting of Thomas Carlyle. Read More...
Amaarae‘s uniquely futurist take on R&B and Afropop comes as the product of years of unexpected travels — sometimes brief, but momentous stays in distinct locations across the globe. Born in the Bronx, the singer-songwriter and producer spent a lot of her childhood and teen years: moving from New York to Atlanta to her family’s home base in Ghana. Read More...
Christine McVieObituaryChristine McVie obituaryFleetwood Mac singer and keyboardist who wrote many of the band’s canonical tunes, including Say You Love Me, Songbird and Don’t StopFleetwood Mac were Brit-rock stalwarts when, in 1974, they hit on the idea of pepping up their lineup. They invited a folky Californian, Lindsey Buckingham, to join, but he refused to come without his girlfriend, Stevie Nicks. The band agreed, on one condition: their sole female member, Christine McVie, had to feel comfortable with Nicks. Read More...