In a new series of paintings now on view at the New Bedford Whaling Museum, painter Christopher Volpe shows why. He explores how Herman Melville’s dark whale tale charted a course to today. “I saw the ...

A Rockwell Kent-illustrated edition of 'Moby-Dick' is at the center of a new show at the Portland Museum of Art that reveals immense inspiration for artists.

NEW BEDFORD -- A small red and green lamp has illuminated Albert Doucette's workbench in the rear of Whale's Tale Scrimshanders at 42 N. Water St. since he opened his scrimshaw shop 20 years ago.

Inside a whale "listening booth,'' one can dial up a particular whale and hear its telltale sounds — some whistles, rumbles and buzzes; others faint click-clicks like some deep-sea Morse code.

Megumi Sasaki's documentary 'A Whale of a Tale' explores the aftermath of the documentary 'The Cove' in the Japanese town of Taiji from the fishermen's point of view.

A dispute between famed whale artist Wyland and the state Coastal Commission appears to be ending in a kind of divorce: Wyland says he will bar the commission from further use of his popular whale … ...

Austin artist Shanon Weaver shares his experience playing Charlie and watching Brendan Fraser play the same part in The Whale By Shanon Weaver , Fri., Dec. 23, 2022 Tweet ...

The tale of a whale who took in — and spit out — a sea kayaker In a video, a man captured the jaws of a humpback whale poke out of the water around his son's kayak, close around him, and ...

Megumi Sasaki's documentary 'A Whale of a Tale' explores the aftermath of the documentary 'The Cove' in the Japanese town of Taiji from the fishermen's point of view.