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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 ...

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 ...

A biographical exhibition reveals the profound origins of her intensely engaging art Briana A. Thomas - Reporter The 1989 photograph, Maya Lin working on Civil Rights Memorial by Adam Stoltman, is ...

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 ...

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 ...