What to do this weekend, from Harry Styles’s Meltdown to reliving 1996

4 minutes

Pharrell Williams: Cash in Cash Out (Official Video) ft. 21 Savage and Tyler, the Creator

Any serious animation buff will agree that some of the most creative and inventive uses of the medium can now be found in music videos. But even by the exceptionally high standards of computer-animated music promos, the video for Pharrell Williams’s Cash in Cash Out, by French director François Rousselet, is a knockout. Created using state of the art 3D computer animation, it recreates the tactile look of claymation, rendering Williams, 21 Savage and Tyler, the Creator as tiny, morphing figures. And the revolving structure of the video is a nod to the very beginning of the moving image: the rotating drum of the zoetrope.

45 minutes

1996: 30 Years On, Barbican, London

According to curator Dominic Mohan, it was the wildest year of Britain’s wildest decade. I’ll have to take his word on that. Perhaps – as with the 60s – if you can remember 1996, you weren’t doing it properly. But this free pop cultural exhibition at the Barbican music library fills in some of the memory gaps of this pivotal year for Cool Britannia. Expect Spice Girls stage costume items, sundry Oasis tat and photography by Jill Furmanovsky, Derek Ridgers and more.

1 hour

Curious Universe: Cosmic Titans, Jodrell Bank, Cheshire

The touring exhibition Curious Universe: Cosmic Titans is a collection of commissioned works by artists collaborating with world-leading scientists. If your appetite for works created at the intersection of art and science has been whet by the release of Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day, get a further fix of sculptures and photography inspired by quantum science, created with Nottingham Universe.

An afternoon

Steam Down: Sounds of the Diaspora, Southbank Centre, London

Harry Styles’s Meltdown festival kicked off at London’s Southbank Centre earlier in the week. Those of you who have managed to secure tickets will be able to experience the One Direction showman’s eclectic tastes at a series of culturally wide-ranging events. But my pick is a free, non-ticketed afternoon takeover on the Riverside Terrace. Steam Down: Sounds of the Diaspora’s five-hour event combines live performance and DJ sets, touching on jazz, grime, Afrobeat, funk and electronic sounds.

A day (or two)

British Library Food Season Big Weekend

Now in its seventh year, the British Library’s Food Season kicks off with its Big Weekend. Highlights in a packed schedule of conversations with chefs, food writers and historians include The Edible Archive: Palestinian Memory and Resistance, a deep dive into edible seaweeds, an in-conversation event with River Cafe’s Ruthie Rogers and Firepower, in which women reclaim the barbecue. In-person multisession discounts are available on tickets.

Illustration by Charlotte Durance