Why the art world...lionized Duchamp is a question we should ask Peggy Guggenheim, but he wasn’t well known until the 1950s, when CIA money promoting post-war American culture likely touched him too. It also happened t Duchamp’s desire for …Duchamp’s trip to Las Vegas and the Stardust Hotel and Casino, then owned (on paper) by the wife of mob front man John “Jake the Barber” Factor, was facilitated b L.A. art collector, menswear entrepreneur, and nephew of “Jake the Barber”, M…1963, the year of Duchamp’s Las Vegas trip facilitated by Monte Factor, was also the year that John F. Kennedy was assassinated. While the 1964 Warren Report found Lee Harvey Oswald solely responsible, a decade later The United States House…
Betty Asher
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In this course
Betty Asher does not appear in these excerpts, which discuss Duchamp, Peggy Guggenheim, and Monte Factor in relation to Cold War cultural patronage and Duchamp's Las Vegas visit. It's possible there's a data mismatch or that Asher appears only tangentially in readings not excerpted here; based on the available material, I cannot construct a meaningful note about her role in the "Pandaemonium Architecture 6.0" seminar.
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Marcel Duchamp 3Monte Factor 2Alexander Cockburn 1Arthur B. Darling 1Arturo Rosenblueth 1Benjamin Breen 1Betty Factor 1Carlos Vidales 1Gregory Bateson 1Jeffrey St. Clair 1John F. Kennedy 1Johnny Roselli 1Julian Bigelow 1Lee Harvey Oswald 1Margaret Mead 1Norbert Wiener 1Richard Hamilton 1Søren Brier 1Stewart Brand 1Teeny Duchamp 1Walter Hopps 1William Copley 1Bill Copley 1Michael Asher 1Peggy Guggenheim 1Walter 1Alvin Lustig 1Ed Kienholz 1Jerry Rothschild 1John Factor 1