The reason they've chosen that particular image for this edition, with its special features on London's art scene, is no doubt due to the opening of a major new exhibition at Tate Modern entitled The World Goes Pop. It's a bit of a misnomer on Time Out's part though, as the show itself doesn't actually feature Warhol's familiar soup cans at all, with Tate's marketing bumpf quick to stress that "This is pop art, but not as you know it". While famous images like these, the Marilyn and Elvis prints and Roy Liechtenstein's comic strip-style paintings have come to symbolise Pop Art in general, the exhibition sets out to show how the movement was much wider-reaching and influential than this - "never just a celebration of western consumer culture, but...often a subversive international language of protest – a language that is more relevant today than ever."
