NEW YORK — On Monday, the Metropolitan Opera presented the company premiere of Jake Heggie’s “Moby-Dick” — the composer’s 2010 operatic adaptation of Herman Melville’s landmark 1851 ...

Finally, an action-packed “Moby Dick” for the rest of us, starring William Hurt as Ahab, Ethan Hawke as Starbuck and one very crafty CGI sea monster.

Now that sentence can make a further claim. It has inspired the name of “Draw Me Ishmael: The Book Arts of Moby Dick,” which runs at the Peabody Essex Museum through Jan. 4, 2026.

Until a few years ago, the American artist Wu Tsang never had much interest in “Moby-Dick,” Herman Melville’s classic 1851 novel. Its subject — an obsessed mariner’s quest for a mythical ...

Northern Kentucky University Professor Bob Wallace says art depicting the novel and its elusive white whale is integral to interpreting its themes of multiculturalism, post-colonialism, ecology ...

NEW YORK — On Monday, the Metropolitan Opera presented the company premiere of Jake Heggie’s “Moby-Dick” — the composer’s ...

At the Met, a visually stunning ‘Moby-Dick’ surfaces but never goes deep. Composer Jake Heggie’s 2010 adaptation of Melville’s classic novel gets an expanded treatment in a Metropolitan ...