Beautiful Whale features Austin’s unprecedented portraits of whales at sea that range from remarkable close-ups, with a special focus on the eye, ... Minke Whale Portrait 1346, 2009.

Only the whale itself was disappeared, a decision that may have been the result of a compromise between the artist’s vision and 17th century social mores. “Over the centuries,” says Kuang ...

Elizabeth O'Connor's spare and bracing debut novel Whale Fall opens with an isolated Welsh island on a precipice.It is September 1938, and the community's fishermen have begun encountering the ...

'Whale Bones', Overall Winner Underwater Photographer of the Year 2024 and Wide Angle category. ...More Greenland. Alex Dawson, Sweden - UPY 2024 . This image was taken in the toughest conditions ...

“ A Marriage at Sea ” opens on a moment of high drama — a moment that is, oddly, both calm and terrifying: One quiet March ...

YUYAN: Sea ice is so thin now that it's really hard to find any place to pull up the whales at all. CHEN: Kiliii knows that whale hunting can be a touchy subject, especially with the general public.

No spokesperson for SeaWorld, the venerable American chain of oceanariums and marine mammal parks that owns almost half of the world’s captive orcas, or killer whales, ever appears on camera in ...

With “Albert and the Whale,” the biographer and critic Philip Hoare trains his mind on the Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer, then lets it drift to art history, nature writing and elements of ...

This 16th-century map is teeming with sea monsters. Most are based on a real mammal. At a time when the mortality rate for distant maritime voyages was 50 percent, the Bible, legend, and lore gave ...