We bring you our guide to living well in the world’s capitals, from exhibitions to cinema, food, drink, fashion, music and beyond. Just call it culture and take it, it’s yours.

LONDON, FRIDAY 2nd OCTOBER – MONDAY 4th OCTOBER 2015

Rebel without a cause
60 years ago this week James Dean died in a car crash on the late afternoon of Sept. 30, 1955, driving his beloved Porsche 550 Spyder, or Little Bastard as Dean asked to be painted on the car.

Photographer and filmmaker Anton Corbijn is no stranger to directing biopics centred around iconic stars who burnt to bright, too soon – just watch his poignant Ian Curtis flick Control (2007). His latest project Life focuses on Dean, specifically a brief friendship between the young actor and photographer Dennis Stock.

In early 1955 26-year-old Stock went to a party at the LA bungalow of film director Nicholas Ray and was introduced to Dean, the 23-year-old budding actor. Life tells the story of the 1955 Life magazine photo shoot for which Stock shot images of the 24-year-old in New York and then accompanied the star on what turned out to be his last trip home to Indiana, just before the release of the actor’s 1955 breakthrough in East of Eden.

Starring HERO #10 cover star Dane DeHaan as Dean and Robert Pattinson as Stock, Corbijn’s eye for iconic cinematography is put to sharp use, after all, this is a movie about photography, a subject Corbijn knows perhaps more than any movie director working.

LIFE, 111 mins, in cinemas now

Burst the bubble
When someone mentions Pop Art your mind automatically wanders to the obvious, Andy Warhol, Peter Blake, Keith Haring, and so on. But the term spans a lot wider than you’d first think.

The Tate Modern’s latest exhibition, World Goes Pop, displays over 200 works by artists from Latin America to Asia, celebrating the many diverse faces of pop art.From Marcello Nitsche’s giant flyswatter – a satirical left hook towards the Brazilian military dictatorship of the 1960s – to Martha Rosler’s politically charged collages.

There’s a lot to see here, take your time, soak it in. The exhibition proves its point, Pop is universal.

World Goes Pop runs at the Tate Modern until January 24th

“Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?”
From the leather-black ashes singed by the messy break up of the Sex Pistols rose a new beast, Public Image LTD.; the same fire burnt in its belly, but this animal’s heart beat to a post-punk droning pulse. Ex-Pistols frontman John ‘Johnny Rotton’ Lydon stood at the core of the band, whilst numerous part-time members came in and out of the group, resulting in a revolving door line-up.

After a brief stint living in Jamaica with Virgin Records boss Richard Branson, Lydon reemerged into the musical sphere with the release of Public Image: First Issue (1978), a progressive statement of intent. Nine records later (including this year’s recent What the World Needs Now…) and PiL show no sign of slowing down.

Their latest tour brings them to London’s Shepherd’s Bush Empire this weekend. Here’s your chance to see the face of punk (and Country Life butter) up close and personal. Spit protection goggles are advised.

Public Image Ltd. play at Shepherd’s Bush Empire on Friday 2nd October, tickets available here.

Dive with me
Ordovas gallery’s latest exhibition The Big Blue uses one of Damien Hirst’s trademark shark suspended in formaldehyde as bait, drawing in the crowds. But there’s more beneath the surface.

The exhibition explores the many ways in which the sea influences art. Aquatic themes have long been a strong source of inspiration for artists, from Alexander McQueen’s Plato’s Atlantis SS10 collection to Turner’s lifelong fascination with the sea. There’s something about the unknown that attracts our curiosity – to date, we have explored less than five percent of the ocean, (although Attenborough is probably up to around 80 percent).

The oldest item in the exhibition is a fragment of a Roman sarcophagus, covered in carvings of mythical sea creatures, alongside works by Francis Bacon, Picasso and Max Ernst.

The Big Blue runs at Ordovas, W1S 2ER until 12th December

Get it down ya
When hunger takes its toll and your stomach starts to produce noises more commonly heard within animal enclosures you know it’s time to stock up on some top notch grub.

And that’s exactly what Venn Street Records are offering, with a killer soundtrack to boot. Combining their love of food and music, walls are plastered in music memorabilia, gig posters, flyers and vinyl covers. Think Hard Rock Cafe, but without the tourists.

Ask for an AC/Daquiri and Play Ball.

Venn Street Records is located at 78 Venn St, London SW4 0BD