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’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial, which opened 40 years ago this month, changed everything and nothing about how we understand memorials. Its list of soldiers lost in the war, more than 58,000 ...

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 ...

Vietnam Veterans Memorial artist Maya Lin and landscape architect Pamela Burton designed the 30,000-square-foot, $3.6-million plaza commissioned in 2000. UC Irvine unveiled its new Arts Plaza on ...

Dead trees and art may be an unusual combination, but the pairing is part of a new display in New York’s Madison Square Park designed to highlight a particular phenomenon of climate change: the loss ...

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 ...