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 ...

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 ...

When the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery gives an exhibition on some famous person's life, it's usually a posthumous honor. That's how it was for Sylvia Plath, Frederick Douglass and Martin ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 is a contemporary Asian-American artist and architect best known for her powerful Vietnam Veterans Memorial (1982) in Washington, D.C. Incorporating both industrial materials and altercations ...

Maya Lin is an American architect and sculptor best known for her design of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. Although chiefly known as a sculptor, Lin also has worked on several ...