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 …Richard Hamilton, who was out here for the opening of the show, and Betty and Monte Factor and me to go with the Duchamps—Mrs. Duchamp, Tini, was here also. So actually I think Bill took us all, and we went out to the airport. […]
At dinne…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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Betty Asher appears primarily as a peripheral figure in the social orbit around Marcel Duchamp's 1963 Las Vegas trip, mentioned alongside Monte Factor and others who facilitated or accompanied this pivotal moment in the artist's late career. Her presence in the readings marks her as part of the mid-century art world's informal networks—the social infrastructure through which major artists and their ideas circulated—though the excerpts offer no detail about her own practice or theoretical contributions. The mention places her in a specific moment of Cold War cultural history when such trips and encounters were embedded in broader geopolitical currents.
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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