Eva Langret has transformed Frieze from a commercial platform into something more ambitious: a civic space where ideas circulate freely across borders and generations. As director for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, she's positioning the fair as both laboratory and forum, balancing commercial weight with cultural depth while championing emerging voices and protecting the infrastructures that sustain dialogue in turbulent times.

Decades before Instagram and the selfie, Cindy Sherman was forensically dissecting how we construct identity for the camera. At Hauser & Wirth Menorca, her works from the 1970s to the 2010s reveal an artist who anticipated our image-saturated present with uncanny precision, holding up a mirror to the performative reality of modern life.

Telmo Rodríguez has spent three decades reimagining Rioja through the lens of terroir, village traditions and radical authenticity. At Bodega Lanzaga, the pioneering winemaker rejects commercial convention in favour of small-parcel bottlings that honour centuries-old winemaking culture while charting an entirely original path for Spain's most famous wine region.

From the Gran Chaco region of north-west Argentina, Claudia Alarcón and the Silät collective are transforming ancestral Wichí weaving traditions into a powerful contemporary language. At Cecilia Brunson Projects in London, their intricate textiles made from hand-spun chaguar plant fibres reveal how Indigenous artistic practice can honour the past while charting entirely new futures.

At Yorkshire Sculpture Park, William Kentridge discusses shadows made solid, the movement between hope and pessimism, and why moments of clarity should never pretend to last. I met the South African artist amid The Pull of Gravity, his first museum sculpture exhibition outside South Africa, where he speaks about provisional coherence — the concept central to his practice — and why collage remains the most honest way to see our fragmented world.

In an ultra-modern Soave winery, brothers Dario and Andrea Pieropan continue their late father Leonildo's revolutionary work—perfecting organic white wines that honour tradition while embracing innovation. Their father transformed the region's reputation in the 1970s with single-vineyard wines like Calvarino and La Rocca, proving Italian whites could match Burgundy's complexity. Now, in a striking new building designed to age like the wines it houses, the brothers write the next chapter.