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Inside the Former ‘Underworld’ Where Ai Weiwei Makes Art

Ahead of his largest-ever exhibition in the U.S., the dissident artist reflects on collecting jade and living below ground.

The Artists Remaking Everyday Buildings in Dollhouse Scale

Miniaturists are memorializing the architecture of quickly changing cities with meticulous renderings of corner stores, restaurants and even dumpsters.

Why Wellness Culture Has Cozied Up to Leeches

The bloodsucking worms might conjure an era of vampiric pseudoscience, but their powerful jaws are inspiring new applications.

Paris’s Newest Hotels Embrace Color and Quirk

From the Marais to the Champs-Élysées, the French capital is suddenly full of small, exuberantly designed places to stay.

The Make-Do Joys of Terrazzo

Modern artisans are transforming the centuries-old cheap but elegant method of reusing offcuts.

How Marina Abramović and Sondra Radvanovsky Revel in Risk

The performance artist says that meeting Radvanovsky was like finding a “younger sister.”