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…9 Legrady, Miklos. Did Marcel Duchamp Pave the Way For Donald Trump? New Art Examiner, September, 2021. https://newartexaminer.net/did-duchamp-pave-the-way-for-donald-trump/
10 Asher, Betty M. Oral History Interview, 1980 June 30 and 1980 …
Monte Factor
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Monte Factor was an L.A. art collector and menswear entrepreneur who facilitated Marcel Duchamp's 1963 trip to Las Vegas, connecting the Dadaist master to the mob-adjacent casino world through his family ties to organized crime figure John "Jake the Barber" Factor. The readings use this encounter to explore how Duchamp's engagement with American spectacle and illicit economies prefigured later intersections of art, capital, and institutional corruption—a genealogy that the course frames as foundational to understanding contemporary art's complicity with power structures.
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