Amid warring artistic obsessions, the heroine chooses death, literally consumed by her drive to dance.

Fortunately, what started as an artistic obsession recently became a paying job.

The theater director Robert Wilson has been faithful to his artistic obsessions for more than four decades.

But in the process, what started as a simple project to photograph rain-forest leaders has become a remarkable artistic and now humanitarian obsession for Mr. Cruz.

They walk away together, seemingly finally rid of his artistic obsession.

Ms. Graney brings his artistic obsessions to choreographic life.

Her artistic obsession has now grown to match Worm's scientific one: she has recreated the museum in three-dimensional detail.

Your parents didn't understand your artistic obsession with dance.

This penchant for insects had commercial value, but it did not seem to be an artistic obsession on the order of, say, Picasso's fascination with bulls.