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 open competition for a Vietnam War memorial was officially announced in November 1980, and a brochure and a rules packet for it were sent to every art and architecture school in the United States, ...

It is perhaps ironic that Maya Lin, architect and designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., was one It is perhaps ironic that Maya Lin, architect and designer of the Vietnam ...

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 ...

In 1979, Congress grants a Vietnam War veterans' committee the right to build a memorial on the Mall in Washington, D.C., dedicated to American soldiers killed in the conflict in Vietnam. The ...

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 ...

Author appearance James Reston Jr. will discuss and sign "A Rift in the Earth," 7 p.m. Monday, Brazos Bookstore, 2421 Bissonnet; 713-523-0701 or brazosbookstore.com. The Washington Post once called ...

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 ...

In 1979, Congress grants a Vietnam War veterans' committee the right to build a memorial on the Mall in Washington, D.C., dedicated to American soldiers killed in the conflict in Vietnam. The ...