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Ileana Sonnabend: Ambassador for the New

Ambassador for the New is a fitting title for a new exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) celebrating the life of Ileana Sonnabend, one of the most important interesting art dealers and gallerists of the twentieth century. Sonnabend developed a reputation as an audacious champion of post-war and contemporary works of art, daring, with certain brilliance, to promote artists she had rightly recognised as being groundbreaking. This show focuses on the efforts of her galleries in New