Heavily criticized 40 years ago for her Vietnam Veterans' Memorial design, the artist-architect-activist prefers to talk about her artistic... Maya Lin doesn't like the spotlight — but the Smithsonian ...

The famed artist and designer drew on her lifelong love of the environment for inspiration for new work in New York and Chicago. By Jane L. Levere Musicians, writers and others revisit the work that ...

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial has grown to be as beloved a work of public art as this country has seen over the past half century, and the audacious genius of Maya Lin is something of a given: She may ...

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Nearly all of the people who have received biographical exhibitions at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery — Sylvia Plath, Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King Junior, to name a few — are ...

Maya Lin bridges the connection between humans and the natural landscape. Renowned for her large-scale environmental artworks and memorial designs, Maya Lin's work explores the relationship between ...

Maya Lin, in 1988, examining inverted water table being fabricated for the Civil Rights Memorial she designed to be installed in Montgomery, Alabama. (Adam Stoltman) Nearly all of the people who have ...