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 1st NOVEMBER – SUNDAY 3rd NOVEMBER 2013

To Infinity and Beyond
When Yayoi Kusama first showed her Infinity Nets in New York in the late 50s they instantly catapulted her onto the path of becoming one of the most revered artists of her generation.

If that doesn’t impress you much – what’s wrong with you? – bear in mind few other contemporary artists have been able to accommodate a psychiatric nervous disorder, which blights her vision with crippling repeated hallucinations, as part of a successful commercial art career!

This series was created with Victoria Miro’s new Mayfair gallery in mind and surprisingly is the first time that the master of white hot brushmarks has shown an entire suite of Infinity Nets in Europe.

These blackened canvases obsessively covered with looped white brushmarks are hypnotically engaging. A real must see.

Yayoi Kusama: White Infinity Nets
Until 16th November 2013, open Tue–Sat 10:00–18:00
Victoria Miro Mayfair, 14 St George Street London W1S 1FE

Show off
Dan Colen, Willem de Kooning, Jeff Elrod, Yves Klein, Roy Lichtenstein, Nate Lowman, Francis Picabia, Richard Prince, Cy Twombly, Andy Warhol, Christopher Wool, Richard Wright. Now that’s what you call a line up.

Exploring the deaths and odd rebirths of painting in our time and whether or not it even can be reborn in new ways; this stellar exhibition at The Gagosian Gallery contradicts its own premise – highlighting the much proposed yet rarely concluded question of whether the end of painting has occurred in our century.

Expect rampant nihilism, monochromatic panel paintings, attacks on canvas and many other challenges to the limits of what we deem to be painting.

The Show is Over
Until 30th November 2013, open Tue–Sat 10:00–18:00
Gagosian Britannia St, 6-24 Britannia Street London, WC1X 9JD

White Lion Lyon *LYAN
Imagine a bar with no ice. No branded bottles or spirits. No half slices of lemon or lime. Well that’s exactly what you get at at White Lyan, there’s no JD on the rocks or rounds of Bacardi Breezers in this establishment.

Wrap your lips around a frosted glass full of a Beeswax Old Fashioned where the Scotch is sweetened with honey poured from a bottle lined with natural beeswax, or perhaps The Moby Dick Sazerac which contains ambergris, a substance extracted from the bile ducts of sperm whales and more commonly used in expensive perfumes. If these drinks could talk they’d be POSH.

Everything down to the glasses provided with the bottles of beer has been delicately considered. But there’s a lighter side too: the basement’s got a stripper pole…

Tuesday to Saturday, 18:00 until 00:00
White Lyan, 153 Hoxton Street, N1

If you’re less keen on cocktails and a bottle of Montepulciano is more your thing then head down the street to the newly opened Sager and Wilde around the corner from Hoxton Overground station.

An awesome selection of wines are sold by the glass or bottle here – so far, so standard. But if you’re savvy you’ll quickly notice all bottles are priced £20, which luckily for those with expensive taste or hoping to refine their palettes makes the pricier wines better value.

Open 17:00–23:00 daily
Sager and Wilde, 193 Hackney Road, London, E2 8JL

Ain’t nothing like the real thing
There has been a real trend for food markets, food festivals, organic-free-range-ecologically-healthy-food huts or basically any excuse for us to stuff our faces with upgraded street grub recently.

The difference with this week’s foodie suggestion is that everything sold at The Real Food Festival on the Southbank will not only be cooked by the vendors but has been grown, reared or produced by them too!

Made up of over 30 street food traders, who deal in everything from whopping rare breed burgers, pasta, Asian favourites, paella, churros, crepes and much more, this is the real deal. No fancy marketing spiel, just guilt free eating all round.

The Real Food Festival
Friday-Sunday 10:00-23:00
Southbank Centre, Belvedere Rd, London, SE1 8XX