RECENT & SELECTED PRESS

• Bauman, Peter. Maya Lin on Systematic Naturalism. Le Random (January 26, 2024)

• La Force, Thessaly. Maya Lin’s Monumental Vision. Harper’s Bazaar (November 9, 2023).

• Russeth, Andrew. Maya Lin’s Utopian Pragmatism. ArtReview (April 6, 2023).

• Thomas, Briana A. The Private World of Public Artist Maya Lin. Smithsonian Magazine (December 12, 2022).

• Kennicott, Philip. Maya Lin’s Vietnam Memorial Blazed a Path in 1982, but no one followed. Washington Post (November 16, 2022).

• Solomon, Tessa. Maya Lin, Star Architect Who Created D.C. Vietnam Memorial, Will Create Public Art for Obama Presidential Center. ARTnews (August 5, 2022).

• Ng, Celeste. The 100 Most Influential People of 2022. TIME (May 23, 2022).

• Medford, Sarah. Maya Lin’s Art Illustrates Urgency of the Climate Crisis. Wall Street Journal (December 26, 2021)

• Medford, Sarah. Maya Lin Keeps Breaking New Ground. The Wall Street Journal (November 1, 2021)

• Crimmins, Peter. UPenn Designed its Newest Hospital Building for Healing. WHYY (November 1, 2021)

• Lin, Maya. Reconnecting to the Natural World: Maya Lin on How Art Can Lead Us to a Sustainable Future. ARTnews (August 23, 2021)

• Cotter, Holland. In Maya Lin’s ‘Ghost Forest,’ the Trees Are Talking Back. The New York Times (July 1, 2021)

• Yerebakan, Osman Can. Maya Lin on planting a ghost forest in Manhattan. Art Forum (June 22, 2021)

• Helfand, Zach. Maya Lin’s Ghost Forest in the Shadow of Shake Shack. The New Yorker (May 10, 2021)

• Miranda, Carolina. How a pandemic year of loss reshaped Maya Lin’s art and architecture. Los Angeles Times (May 6, 2021)

• Moffitt, Evan. Maya Lin Builds a Final Monument to the Climate. Frieze (April 28, 2021: Issue 219)

• Di Liscia, Valentina. Maya Lin Erects a Ghostly Grove of Dead Trees in Manhattan. Hyperallergic (April 14, 2021)

• Lewis, Michael J. Like an Open Book. The Wall Street Journal (March 31, 2021)

• Waddoups, Ryan. The Deeply Personal Story Behind Maya Lin’s Latest Project. Surface (March 23, 2021)

• Sokol, Brett. For Maya Lin, a Victory Lap Gives Way to Mourning. The New York Times (March 17, 2021)

• Angeleti, Gabriella. Maya Lin’s 'ghost forest' will rise in Madison Square Park this spring. The Art Newspaper (February 9, 2021)

• Loos, Ted. Artists Are Hunkered Down, but Still Nurturing Their Inner Visions. The New York Times (April 26, 2020)

• Greenberger, Alex. The 20 Best Environmentalist Artworks of the Past 50 Years. ARTnews (April 22, 2020)

• Franklyn, Sydney. Maya Lin will hang a grove of dead trees in Madison Square Park. The Architect’s Newspaper (November 19, 2019)

• Pogrebin, Robin. Maya Lin to Conjure Dying Trees to Make a Point. The New York Times (November 14, 2019)

• Laster, Paul. Maya Lin’s Soft Power. Surface Magazine (May 15, 2019)

• Ellin, Abby. Maya Lin Captures the Hudson’s Beauty and Power. The New York Times (October 25, 2018)

• Artnet News. I See Rivers as Fluid Moving Drawings. Artnet News (October 25, 2018)

• Rubinton, Noel. Where to See (Really See) the Art of Maya Lin. The New York Times (October 20, 2017)

• Gibbs, Nancy. Firsts: Women Who are Changing the World. TIME (September 18, 2017)

• Campbell, Robert. A Work of Art from Maya Lin on Mass. Ave. The Boston Globe (December 6, 2016)

• Filler, Martin. The Quiet Power of Maya Lin. The New York Review of Books (September 19, 2016)

• Alter, Charlotte. Super Families: Secrets of Super Siblings. TIME (August 24, 2016)

• Bowley, Graham. Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery Reopens With a New Focus. The New York Times (November 12, 2015)

• Nodjimbadem, Katie. Maya Lin Used 54,000 Marbles to Model the Chesapeake Bay. Smithsonian Magazine (November 2015)

• Kino, Carol. Maya Lin’s New Memorial is a City. The New York Times (April 25, 2013)

• Thomas, Mary. Artist Challenges Viewers to Find What is Missing?. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (April 18, 2012)

• Lewis, Michael. Q&A with Architectural Designer and Artist Maya Lin. Dwell (April, 2013)

• Cotter, Holland. Always In Its Element, No Matter the Weather. The New York Times (September 7, 2010: C1, C9)

• Rothstein, Edward. Reopened Museum Tells Chinese-American Stories. The New York Times (September 21, 2009)

• Cotter, Holland. Where the Ocean Meets the Catskills. The New York Times (May 8, 2009: C23, C28)

• Montgomery, David. Monumental Return. The Washington Post (March 17, 2009: C01)

• Kino, Carol. Once Inspired by a War, Now by the Land. The New York Times (November 9, 2008)

• O’Connor, Anne-Marie. Earthly concern. Los Angeles Times (April 1, 2008: E1, E6)

• Bernstein, Fred. Naturally Perfect. Elle Decor (April 2007: 102-111) 

• McGuigan, Cathleen. Where Memory Endures. Newsweek (October 12, 2007)

• Platt, Susan. Maya Lin’s Confluence Project. Sculpture Magazine (November 2006: 54-59)

• Hackett, Regina. The Lay of the Land According to Maya Lin. Seattle Post-Intelligencer (April 22, 2006: E1, E8)

• Parfit, Michael. 35 Who Made a Difference. Smithsonian (November 2005: 100-102)

• Louie, Elaine. From Maya Lin, a Design That Connotes a Safe Harbor. The New York Times (July 22, 2004)

• Menand, Louis. The Reluctant Memorialist. The New Yorker (July 8, 2002: 55-65)

• Cotter, Holland. Art in Review. The New York Times (September 11, 1998)

• Pedersen, Martin. Maya Lin: One Driving Idea. Graphis (January/February 1998: 56-69)

• Goldberger, Paul. Maya Lin’s Power of the Serene. The New York Times (October 29, 1995: 17, 29)

• Coleman, Jonathan. Profile. First She Looks Inward. TIME (November 6, 1989: 90-94)

• Danto, Arthur. The Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial. The Nation (August 31, 1985: 153)

• Forgey, Benjamin. Model of Simplicity. The Washington Post (November 14, 1981)