Pop art Kooning appeared and was turned away by Tremaine, who ironically owned a number of de Kooning's works. Rosenquist recalled: "at that moment I thought, something in the art world has definitely changed". Turning away a respected abstract artist proved that, as early as 1962, the pop art movement had begun to dominate art culture in New York. A bit earlier, on the West Coast, Roy Lichtenstein, Jim Dine and Andy Warhol from New York City; Phillip Hefferton and Robert Dowd from Detroit; Edward Ruscha and Joe Goode from Oklahoma City; and Wayne Thiebaud from California were included in the "New
Benjamin King (artist) Jay Henderson he formed the roaming curatorial project HKJB. This work has resulted eight group exhibitions in New York City, Montreal, and Mexico City. HKJB also publishes a blog called "HKJBlog" with permanent contributors reporting on visual arts in New York City and Los Angeles. HKJB was included in the 2010 Exit Art exhibition and 2012 art history text "Alternative Histories New York Art Spaces 1960–2010", published by MIT Press. In 2011, King, with artist Rob Nadeau, curated the group exhibition "Snowclones" for Joshua Abelow's ARTBLOGARTBLOG pop-up show series held in Ross Bleckner's Chelsea New York studio. His parents Meredith