Mayfair Art Weekend 2019 Highlights: From Moholy-Nagy to Bacon

The sixth edition of Mayfair Art Weekend runs until June 30, 2019, in London's Mayfair and St. James districts, coinciding with London Art Week (June 27–July 5). Initiated in 2014 by John Martin and Johnny Messum in collaboration with Brown's Hotel, the event features simultaneous openings at dozens of galleries, including mega-galleries Hauser & Wirth and Gagosian. Highlights include: at Richard Saltoun, Penny Slinger's 'Tantric Transformations' (until Aug 24) explores femininity, mysticism, and the subconscious through photography, film, and sculpture; Gazzelli Art House's 'It's Not You, It's Me' (until June 30) presents trans artists Cassils, Zackary Drucker, Gray Wielebinski alongside Nan Goldin and Juliana Huxtable, addressing perception and identity. Hauser & Wirth marks the Bauhaus centenary with a show on László Moholy-Nagy (until Sep 7), covering his work across photography, painting, sculpture, film, and design. Waddington Custot's 'Writings on The Wall' (until Aug 8) groups Cy Twombly, Brassaï, Jean Dubuffet, Manolo Millares, Joan Miró, and Antoni Tàpies around calligraphic gesture and ancient graffiti. Gagosian's 'Francis Bacon: Couplings' (until Aug 3) centers on two explicit paintings—'Two Figures' (1953) and 'Two Figures in the Grass' (1954)—last seen together at Bacon's 1971 Grand Palais retrospective; Bacon did not revisit the subject of couples until 1967, when homosexual acts were decriminalized in England and Wales.