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Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines, opening next month at the Brooklyn Museum, will feature nearly a thousand works by almost 100 artists.

Peter Schumann sat in a wobbly plastic chair, a gin and tonic in one hand and a cigar in the other, crossing and recrossing his...

Under an unforgiving sun during a heat wave in July, Peter Schumann, the 89-year-old artistic director of Bread and Puppet Theater, rang a hand bell o

Six days of racing at the Stone King Rally through the eyes of the Gehrig twins, Caro and Anita, and the lens of Sven Martin & Max Schumann.

Peter Schumann’s Bread and Puppet Theater is going strong and, at 89, so is he. But what will happen to his company when he is gone?

There is a little bit of cautious hope on the horizon.

Bread & Puppet Press is pleased to announce the release of the 2023 calendar, Elka’s Calendar. 2023 marks the 60th year since the founding of Bread & Puppet Theater by Peter and Elka Schumann in New York City in 1963. Elka, founder of the Bread and Puppet Press in 1984, passed away at the age of 85 on August 1, 2021. The Bread & Puppet calendars were one of Elka’s favorite projects. She greatly enjoyed the process of deciding on the theme, finding or asking Peter to draw or carve the images,...

She and her husband ran a Vermont-based troupe that has taken on social and political issues in productions featuring enormous puppets.