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 ...

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 ...

Follow the journey of Maya Lin behind the controversial Vietnam Veterans Memorial in DC. In a powerful exploration of art, politics and creativity, the Oscar winning film highlights the story behind ...