Maya Lin

The Challenge Of Memorializing America's Wars

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U.S.

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The Atlantic

The design review committee selected the design of Yale University architecture student Maya Lin. Lin proposed a polished black granite wall with the inscribed names of the Americans who had died in the war. The proposed wall, with no decoration, not even a flag, provided a stunning tally of loss. M

Picasso, Lewitt And 1150 Works Are Part Of More Than $100 Million Gift To Colby Art Museum

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Entertainment

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Washington Post

The gift also boosts Colbys already impressive collection of James McNeill Whistler, represented by 346 works in the museum, as well as adding such contemporary artists as Ai Weiwei and Maya Lin. The time span of works in this donation covers centuries, from an Albrecht Drer etching from 1501 to a

Obama Honors Tom Hanks, Robert De Niro, Bruce Springsteen And More With Medal Of Freedom

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Entertainment

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Hollywood Reporter

Other honorees are philanthropists Bill and Melinda Gates, polymath physicist Richard Garwin, architect Frank Gehry, designer Maya Lin, Saturday Night Liveproducer Lorne Michaels, attorney Newt Minow, mathematician and computer scientist Margaret H. Hamilton, and Eduardo Padrn, president of Miami

Wwi Commission Announces Winning Design For D.c. Memorial

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Entertainment

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Washington Times

Controversy and public memorials tend to go hand in hand within the nations capital. Maya Lins design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial sparked an outcry at first from those who didnt like its sparse, black design. Family members of Dwight D. Eisenhower objected to architect Frank Gehrys concept