the protagonist in Moby-Dick. During a visit to the National Gallery, Melville purportedly saw artist J.M.W. Turner’s Whalers painting, which provided him with visual inspiration for the novel ...

I was overly aware of my response the night I saw Moby-Dick at the Met. I don’t know the first thing about opera and, more worryingly, I’ve become known to friends as a person who won’t stop talking ...

Based on Herman Melville’s 1851 novel, the opera delivers ... The performance artist Laurie Anderson created an avant-garde version of “Moby-Dick” in 1999, called “Songs and Stories ...

This classic story by Herman Melville revolves around Captain Ahab and his obsession with a huge whale, Moby Dick. The whale caused the loss of Ahab's leg years before, leaving Ahab to stomp the ...

By Zachary Woolfe The opening line of Herman Melville’s “Moby-Dick” is ... the kind that artists have always had to make when turning a well-known novel — especially one as sprawling ...

“The story of Moby-Dick paralleled the lives of the four dudes in Mastodon ... In the same interview, Sanders nominated five musical artists who signposted the way for Mastodon’s emergence: Thin Lizzy ...