Palermo Publishing

07/09/2026

03/09/2026

Repost from Almanac

The project by Aterraterra (Aterraterra) with Almanac continues in Turin: the tomatoes are now fruiting and showing a great morphological diversity.

The research is now focusing on the relationships between different organisms that emerge at the margins of, and beyond, cultivated areas. Some bird species can feed on tomatoes and disperse their seeds: the research explores this interspecies dynamic and moves towards experiments in multispecies co-cultivation.

On 19 September, at Orti Generali (), the first day of the public program will explore multispecies relationships and the role of birds in the processes of cultivation and seed dispersal:

OUR FEATHERS WISH ALOUD, workshop by Martina Camani (Martina Camani) and Falive (F҉a҉l҉i҉v҉e҉)
BIRDWATCHING with Gianluca Simonetta
FOOD PERFORMANCE by Aterraterra (Aterraterra)
IMPROVISATIONS by Falive (F҉a҉l҉i҉v҉e҉)

Registration is required for the workshop and birdwatching — sign up via the link in bio! 🌱🐦‍⬛

Aterraterra

27/08/2026

Can’t wait to be back ⋆⭒˚.⋆🪐 ⋆⭒˚.⋆

Repost from Printed Matter Art Book Fairs
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The 2026 NY Art Book Fair website is now live! Visit the link in bio to explore the list of 300+ exhibitors from 41 countries and the full program schedule of lectures, performances, and exhibitions. In honor of this milestone year, we made the poster extra special with a new commissioned artwork by Kristen Mueller, Printed Matter’s own bibliographer and founder of Some Other Books. The design treatment is by Draw Down Books Draw Down Books. Exhibitors: check your mailboxes! Visitors: come by our store in Chelsea to pick up a free copy!

Tickets are also now available to purchase on the Fair website 🎟️

More than ever, Printed Matter relies on our community’s support to help sustain the Art Book Fair and make our work possible in a tumultuous economic and political landscape. For this Fair, we have made the difficult decision to increase ticket prices in order to alleviate rising production costs. In line with our values, no one will be turned away for lack of funds.

We are grateful for your support and look forward to being with you all at in September.

25/08/2026

“My first solo show in New York opened in January, 1981, in a loft in Soho that two artists, Jane and Jeff Hudson, were renting that year. They performed as a band and were taking time off from teaching at the Boston Museum School. The photographer David Armstrong, who had graduated from that school, had the first show. Mine followed and was up through March.

The work was made in Mississippi in the 70s before I moved to New York— gritty, black and white pictures about the world of a gay friend of mine, David Kain, who lived with his grandmother in my hometown, Greenville. A heavy drinker and subversive personality, he had been a crystal ball gazer in New Orleans; he saw omens everywhere and gave us spontaneous psychic readings.”

Excerpt from Allen Frame’s “In the Wings,” published in WHEREUPON by Palermo Publishing

Excerpt from Allen Frame’s “In the Wings,” published in WHEREUPON by Palermo Publishing.

Image: Frank, Cookie, Dan and John, Brighton Beach, 1983 © Allen Frame.

Allen Frame

20/08/2026

Portraits and Places by Steve Turtell brings together autobiographical essays rooted in the artistic and q***r milieus of 1970s and 1980s New York.

Moving through friendships, encounters, and places, Turtell traces a constellation of lives that shaped his experience of the city.
The texts are interwoven with photographs by Peter Hujar, whose portraits emerge as presences from the same world the writing evokes — from the Palm Casino R***e and the downtown scene to the artists and friends who moved through New York in a moment of profound cultural change.

Portraits and Places
Steve Turtell
Photographs by Peter Hujar
Published by Palermo Publishing, 2025

Available through Palermo Publishing and selected bookshops.

Steve Turtell
Peter Hujar Foundation

20/08/2026

Portraits and Places by Steve Turtell brings together autobiographical essays rooted in the artistic and q***r milieus of 1970s and 1980s New York.

Moving through friendships, encounters, and places, Turtell traces a constellation of lives that shaped his experience of the city.
The texts are interwoven with photographs by Peter Hujar, whose portraits emerge as presences from the same world the writing evokes — from the Palm Casino R***e and the downtown scene to the artists and friends who moved through New York in a moment of profound cultural change.

Portraits and Places
Steve Turtell
Photographs by Peter Hujar
Published by Palermo Publishing, 2025

Available through Palermo Publishing and selected bookshops.

17/08/2026

In 2022, we were invited by curator Maria Chiara Di Trapani to present Cartoline di Sicilia at Spazio Flaccovio, as part of “Sicilia: Living Archive”.

Spazio Flaccovio in Palermo was born from the extraordinary archive donated by the Flaccovio family — hundreds of books and magazines that trace the history of a publishing house which profoundly shaped the city’s cultural and visual life. The space was also the long-held vision of Francesco “Ciccio” Flaccovio, son of Salvatore Fausto Flaccovio, who saw it as a way to preserve and keep that legacy alive.

We had the privilege of spending time with Ciccio, who shared with us some of his favourite issues of Sicilia magazine and spoke with great passion about the publishing house he had grown up in and later carried forward.

We were deeply saddened to hear of his passing last Friday.

Ciccio was a brilliant and elegant Sicilian man, whose curiosity and courage turned publishing into an adventure. In 1961, at just twenty-one, he drove a Fiat 1100 from Palermo to Tehran, carrying a newly published volume on the mosaics of Monreale — produced by his father and illustrated by Enzo Sellerio. That journey, in many ways, captured what we admired most in him: ambition, imagination, and a romantic belief in how far a book could travel.

We deeply admire what the Flaccovio publishing house created, and what Ciccio dedicated his life to preserving.

In our own small way, we hope Palermo Publishing carries a glimmer of that legacy forward.

Thank you, Ciccio.

Images from Sicilia: Living Archive, , curated by Mariachiara Di Trapani.
Courtesy of Palermo Publishing.

17/08/2026

In 2022, we were invited by curator Maria Chiara Di Trapani to present Cartoline di Sicilia at Spazio Flaccovio, as part of “Sicilia: Living Archive”.

Spazio Flaccovio in Palermo was born from the extraordinary archive donated by the Flaccovio family — hundreds of books and magazines that trace the history of a publishing house which profoundly shaped the city’s cultural and visual life. The space was also the long-held vision of Francesco “Ciccio” Flaccovio, son of Salvatore Fausto Flaccovio, who saw it as a way to preserve and keep that legacy alive.

We had the privilege of spending time with Ciccio, who shared with us some of his favourite issues of Sicilia magazine and spoke with great passion about the publishing house he had grown up in and later carried forward.

We were deeply saddened to hear of his passing last Friday.

Ciccio was a brilliant and elegant Sicilian man, whose curiosity and courage turned publishing into an adventure. In 1961, at just twenty-one, he drove a Fiat 1100 from Palermo to Tehran, carrying a newly published volume on the mosaics of Monreale — produced by his father and illustrated by Enzo Sellerio. That journey, in many ways, captured what we admired most in him: ambition, imagination, and a romantic belief in how far a book could travel.

We deeply admire what the Flaccovio publishing house created, and what Ciccio dedicated his life to preserving.

In our own small way, we hope Palermo Publishing carries a glimmer of that legacy forward.

Thank you, Ciccio.

Images from Sicilia: Living Archive, , curated by Mariachiara Di Trapani.
Courtesy of Palermo Publishing.

11/08/2026

Bachelors: The Story of a Botanical Migration by Donata Lazzarini is now available from Palermo Publishing.

Developed from Lazzarini’s research around Encephalartos woodii—a plant species known only through male specimens—the book unfolds as an artistic and botanical investigation into extinction, reproduction, migration, hybridisation, and the continuity of life. Taking this extraordinary plant as its point of departure, the project traces the complex histories of botanical circulation, conservation, and human intervention that have shaped its survival.

Moving between scientific research, visual practice, archival material, and speculative thinking, Bachelors reflects on conservation and biodiversity while questioning what it means for a species to survive when its natural reproductive future has disappeared. The book considers survival not as a fixed condition, but as an ongoing process shaped by care, displacement, adaptation, and the possibilities opened by both scientific and artistic imagination.
Through Lazzarini’s work, the story of Encephalartos woodii becomes a broader reflection on fragility and resilience, on the ways in which plants migrate across territories and institutions, and on the relationships between human actions and the preservation of living systems.

Contributions by
Michelangelo Gruttadauria · Rosario Schicchi · Maria Rosa Sossai · Donata Lazzarini · John Donaldson · Paul Mills · Marco Senaldi · Laura Cinti · Patrick Griffith · Ben Novak · Telmo Pievani · Barbara Baldan · Manlio Speciale · Jens-Christian Svenning · Giuseppina Pisciotta Tosini · Federico Lucariello · Caterina Strafalaci

Artwork by Donata Lazzarini
Curated by Maria Rosa Sossai
Translations Dominic McElwee
Project editor Michela Palermo
Graphic design intern Alexandra Koleva

Published by Palermo Publishing in collaboration with SIMUA / Orto Botanico di Palermo.

The publication is supported by PAC2025 – Piano per l’Arte Contemporanea, promoted by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture.