In March, the Smithsonian American Art Museum opens "Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965-1974," a sustained look at one of the most culture-changing events in American history.

It's a good time to remember the Vietnam War. While that dark spot in American history is never far from popular consciousness, we seem, these days, egregiously blind to its lessons. The two-person ...

When the Smithsonian American Art Museum opens “Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965-1974,” the nation’s pre-eminent museum franchise will take its most sustained look at ...

“Vietnam Combat Art” features prints of 39 artworks produced by the U.S. Army Art Program, ... Plans are underway to build an education center in D.C. to complement the Vietnam War Memorial.

A public reception to preview the memorial will be held tonight at Miranda International art gallery in Laguna Beach. Vietnam War veteran Russell Kolins was among those watching Friday as the ...

Reston is the author of A Rift in the Earth: Art, Memory, and the Fight for a Vietnam War Memorial. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, designed by architect and Yale University student Maya Lin, was ...

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 ...

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 ...

Despite having as a resource my own 2015 book, "Creating the Vietnam Veterans Memorial — The Inside Story," Reston made at least three dozen factual errors.The errors range from the stupid ...