It took Isaiah Zagar nine years to make the 7,000-square-foot tile mosaic wrapping around the Painted Bride building in Philadelphia’s Old City. The work stood for a quarter century, then endured a ...

In the final step to sell the structure, which will likely also mean destroying an Isaiah Zagar mosaic, the Bride faced pushback. The Painted Bride Art Center is draped in black mesh since it was ...

Using a scissor lift, Andrew Jeffries and Stacey Holder begin the work of chiseling tiles from the Painted Bride Art Center, saving as much as they can before the building is demolished in November.