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©POP Gallery, the pre-eminent Detroit pop culture showcase for over a decade, launching pad for some of the world’s most influential and important visual artists of the last 20 years, home to some of the Midwest's most exhilarating exhibitions and events, one of the country’s first galleries dedicated to a then brand new “lowbrow” aesthetic, and the halls where pilgrim hipsters came to worship at the feet of the culture-clerics, was humbly and appropriately born as a small but trendy shop in Royal Oak, a tony suburb of Detroit, within the cloisters of a renovated old church. Here the original impetus was selling rock and roll poster art and graphics, Kustom Kulture and vintage visual memorabilia, but soon ©POP burst rather ceremoniously into public and media awareness when world-renown allegorical Cartoon Surrealist, Robert Williams was chosen for the gallery's debut exhibit,