CONCRETE enabled the ancient Romans to erect structures that surpassed in grandiosity even the marble temples of Greece and the brick palaces of Babylon. Today in Italy—and in most of Europe, where ...

Poetry is best read aloud. That’s a known fact of literary nature. But what becomes of it when it’s stamped into a concrete sidewalk? Miami-based artist Agustina Woodgate devised a scheme to see how ...

In 1974, Marvin and Ruth Sackner began gathering works of “concrete poetry," poems whose words and typography are arranged to convey meaning graphically. But they didn’t know the genre was called ...

Photos by John Badman | The Telegraph The word “MY” is etched and dyed into the sidewalk, along with other footprint shapes filled with one word, for 20 consecutive slabs of sidewalk, which will form ...