«At Waldorf, we are excited to see students in the high school singing the elements
of the periodic table, staging plays in Spanish, drawing in Math, producing
short videos for Shakespeare lessons and conveying, through
abstraction, the
history of language through circus arts and acrobatics.»
Yet Lyons» MCA show was called, somewhat ironically (and then again, somewhat not), «
Abstraction in the 21st Century,» a title that was clearly designed to provoke a certain amount
of bemusement and even incredulity on the part
of viewers, given the relatively
short history of 21st century painting in general.