#Maya Lin

[zegalba]

Maya Lin: '2x4 Landscape' (2006)

[davidhudson]

Happy 65th, Maya Lin.

[zoeandsubalovephotography]

Architect Maya Lin with her cat in her New York studio

[back-and-totheleft]

"I thought it was beautifully done. Yeah, because it takes you in. It starts from the side very simply. It doesn’t look like much, and then you just go in and in and in and then you see more and more names and you are deeper in the quagmire and you realize in the middle somewhere the immensity of the tragedy, the enormity of it. It dawns on you and then you can walk out gently. It doesn’t imprison you. It doesn’t trap you. It’s a memorial that educates. I think it’s wonderful. [Maya Lin] deserves praise."

-Oliver Stone (filmmaker and Vietnam veteran) on the then recent Vietnam Veterans Memorial, June 1988 [x]

[abwwia]

Maya Lin. The Wave Field, 1995. Shaped earth; 100 × 100 feet. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

[donotdestroy]

"An artist fights to retain the integrity of a work so that it remains a strong, clear vision. Art is and should be the act of an individual willing to say something new, something not quite familiar."

Maya Lin Vietnam Veterans Memorial, 1982 National Mall, Washington D.C.

Sponsor: Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund Architect of Record: Cooper-Lecky Partnership Landscape Architect: Henry Arnold Photography: Terry Adams, Mark Segal, Victoria Sambunaris, Wendy Watriss

[rabbitcruiser]

The groundbreaking ceremony for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was held in Washington, D.C. on March 26, 1982  

[francescacammisa1]

I gatti sono qualcosa di fantastico. Ti ignorano per la maggior parte del tempo, ma quando percepiscono che stai davvero male si avvicinano senza fiatare.

Kawamura Genki - Se i gatti scomparissero dal mondo

Ph Michael Katakis

[famousborntoday]

Maya Ying Lin is an American architect, designer and sculptor. Born in Athens, Ohio to Chinese immigrants, she attended Yale University to study architecture. I...

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[davidhudson]

Happy 64th, Maya Lin.

Dedication of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., Saturday, November 15, 1982.

[eco-diary-by-poli]

Along the Columbia: Maya Lin and the Confluence Project will be on display at Whitman’s Maxey Museum from April 23 to July 30, 2021. Over twenty years ago, Lin was commissioned by a group of arts patrons and tribal leaders of the Columbia River Plateau and the Pacific Northwest to create a major work of public art in remembrance of the bicentennial of Lewis and Clark’s 1804–1806 journey to the Pacific Ocean. The result is the Confluence Project. Left: Maya Lin in 2005 working on a basalt fish-cleaning table for Cape Disappointment State Park on the Washington coast. (Whitman College and Northwest Archives); Right: The Vancouver Land Bridge, completed in 2008, was a collaboration between the architect Johnpaul Jones and the artist and architect Maya Lin. (Photo: Bruce Forster)

[10oclockdot]

A further exploration of the readymade in art, 10 images.

A follow-up to this post, this post, and this post, featuring:

Antonio Muntadas, Transfer, 1975 (a video readymade, prompted by a shipping error; see text from VDB above) Ceal Floyer, Secret, 2009 Pedro Reyes, Disarm (Harmonica), 2017, recycled metal, 15x21x3 cm Daniel Spoerri, Multiplicateur d'Art (Spiegelobjekt), 1964, collage of object glued to mirrors, 51x100cm Claire Fontaine, 371 Grand (The keys open the Reena Spaulings gallery), 2006, 5 metal keys and wire, 3x1in Marcel Broodthaers, Lampe Bleu et Chaise, 1969, lamp, bulb, reflector, chair, black paper, dimensions variable Chris Burden, Porsche with Meteorite, 2013 Nina Canell, A Model Where Things Merge, 2011 Tom Burr, A Conversation, 2013 Maya Lin, Toy Asteroids: Boys v. Girls, 2009

For more notable artworks linked by a common theme, click here.

[abwwia]

21-year-old Yale architecture student Maya Lin with her design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, May 6, 1981.

[rabbitcruiser]

The groundbreaking ceremony for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was held in Washington, D.C. on March 26, 1982.