As Captain Ahab and his crew learn aboard the Pequod, humans cannot bend the universe to their will no matter how narrow their focus or outsize their power. In Ahabโs Head: American Vengeance at the New Bedford Whaling Museum, multidisciplinary artist Heidi Whitman considers contemporary violence, egotism, and fate through the lens of Herman Melvilleโs Moby Dick, Or The Whale.
