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 ...

Architect Maya Lin is best known for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., which she designed as a 21-year-old college student. Jeffrey Brown speaks with Lin about ...

Musicians, writers and others revisit the work that started it all for them, and what (if anything) they might have done differently. Interviews by Lovia Gyarkye and Nicole Acheampong The national ...

Maya Lin, “Marble Chesapeake & Delaware Bay” (2022), glass marbles & adhesive (photography by Kerry Ryan McFate, courtesy Pace Gallery) As water has always been an important subject of Maya Lin’s ...

In 2021, Maya Lin planted 49 Atlantic white cedar trees, each blighted by saltwater inundation, in Manhattan’s Madison Square Park. Ghost Forest was the name of the project; it was, in typical Lin ...

BILL MOYERS: I can sense that you're wresting with the questions and the information because you just didn't grow up steeped in that culture. It's unusual that you were not at home made as aware of ...

Vietnam War Memorial artist finds inspiration in Chinese heritage, environment. Oct. 4, 2009— -- Architect, designer and environmental artist, Maya Lin is best known for her design of the Vietnam ...

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, 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 ...