Warhol Wednesdays: Serendipity 3!
In the heart of Little Italy, sharing a cold water flat with creepies, crawlies and things that go bump in the night lived this piece. Serendipity meant the art of finding the pleasantly unexpected by chance or sagacity. The word was invented by eighteenth century wordsmith Sir Horace Walpole; it evoked the ancient legend of the three princes of the island no longer known as Serendip. Serendipity 3 was New York’s first coffee house boutique. Before he was anyone, Andy Warhol declared it his favorite sweet shop, and paid his chits in drawings.
Andy Warhol and Stephen Bruce, 1962
Photo by: John Ardoin