Joy is not a hallmark sentiment; it is a method. On Sunday at the Whitney Museum, Art Culture and Innovation (ACI 100) unfurled that method like a banner—color: yellow—to mark the bittersweet closing weekend of Amy Sherald: American Sublime and to announce a forward motion rooted in dignity, clarity, and collective grace.

Yellow, in the long discourse of color theory, is an outward force—citrine, kinetic, insistent—capable of warming a room and widening a frame. ACI reframed it as praxis: an ethic of presence, a chromatic strategy for healing, and a reminder that celebration, when chosen deliberately, becomes civic muscle.

The steward of this moment, Erich McMillan McCall of Project 1 Voice, understands that cultural memory and style are kin. Early in his career, he worked beside André L

See Full Page