When it was announced last year that the former Painted Bride Art Center would be demolished, Philadelphia's Magic Gardens scrambled to salvage tiles from a mosaic that its creator spent nine years ...

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 ...

An architect said he could preserve a 7,000-square-foot mural if Old City allowed his new building to exceed height limits. After neighbors objected, a court ruled against him. By Jon Hurdle Reporting ...

It’s Friday, Philly, and likely a sunny one. The mosaic-clad former site of the Painted Bride Art Center in Old City is scheduled to be demolished to make way for apartments and commercial space. But ...

Isaiah Zagar's "Skin of the Bride" mural at the former Painted Bride Arts Center in Old City (all images Isabella Segalovich/Hyperallergic unless otherwise noted) PHILADELPHIA — Last Monday, October ...

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Inside a small bridal shop on South Street, the Painted Bride Art Center was founded as a cooperative art gallery in 1969. Today, the Bride has become a formidable pillar of Philadelphia’s arts ...