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The word vainglory has appeared in six articles on NYTimes.com in the past two years, including on July 4, 2018, in “The Art of Staying Cool: 10 Can’t-Miss Summer Shows in New York” by Jason Farago:

Agnes Gund’s steadfast support for the Museum of Modern Art and other cultural institutions, and for essential art education programs like Studio in a School, has been more than enough to cement her legacy as one of New York’s most generous civic leaders. Yet last year MoMA’s president emerita, who now chairs MoMA PS1’s board of directors, took the extraordinary decision — extraordinary in both scale and vision — to sell a prized Roy Lichtenstein painting and to spend $100 million of the proceeds to fight mass incarceration. Her Art for Justice Fund disbursed its second tranche of grants last week, diverting the art market’s immense wealth to organizations fighting to reform bail procedures, prevent recidivism, educate children of prisoners and end discriminatory sentencing.

.... The bequests here exhibit a greater breadth and quality than the holdings of some single-collector museums. Her greatest legacy could be to inspire a new generation of philanthropists driven, like her, not by vainglory but by justice.