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 sat down with Bill Moyers to discuss her cultural inheritance and its influence on her work. I had a really hard time with my identity. I think I wanted to fit in, I wanted to be American, ...

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 ...

Alumna Maya Lin ’81 ‘86 M.A. describes her life’s work as an interplay between art and architecture that emphasizes a strong commitment to environmental protection and justice. “When I was a kid, I ...

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 ...

Maya Lin wants it all. It's not that she wants to forget her first and most famous accomplishment — her simple, elegant design of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the Washington Mall. It's that Lin ...

"This is the transcript of a slide lecture presented by Maya Lin on the occasion of her exhibition 'Between art and architecture', curated by Robert Rindler, in the Arthur A. Houghton, Jr. Gallery at ...

Maya Ying Lin is an American architect and sculptor. In 1981, while an undergraduate at Yale University, she achieved national recognition when she won a national design competition for the planned ...