Miuccia Prada is one of the world’s great patrons of contemporary art.
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Nate Freeman,
Vanity Fair,
9 Oct. 2026
For all its flowering of original thought and creativity, the Renaissance was ultimately a time of patronage, and the patrons both held the power and used it to enrich their own palaces and places of worship.
But landlords didn’t just attend user groups and happy hours to learn and swap information.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
14 Oct. 2026
About 20 years ago, Hazleton passed the controversial Illegal Immigration Relief Act, which withheld permits from businesses employing undocumented immigrants and fined landlords who rented to them.
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