The Frank Lloyd Wright Revival Initiative, founded by documentary filmmaker Michael Miner, plans to start with a 1911 park pavilion (demolished) that Wright designed for Banff in the Canadian Rockies. But is this a good idea?

It’s not just that those mirrored, carefully lit Infinity Rooms are tricky to put together. There was the matter of carefully training guides and volunteers, crowd control on a scale unprecedented for this museum, and logistics for an all-white room that visitors are meant to cover with colored dots (it has to be white again by the next morning).

The timing of Tuesday’s announcement felt pointed, landing, as it did, during the kickoff to a week in which no less than a dozen art fairs open in New York City, trailing the power players of the international art world in their wake. (It’s known to insiders as “Armory Week,” not for the A.D.A.A.’s event at the actual Armory but for another fair, held at the western edge of Manhattan, on Piers 92 and 94, and named after the 1913 Armory Show, which famously scandalized viewers with Marcel Duchamp’s painting “Nude Descending a Staircase.”)

Liza Oliver, an assistant professor at Wellesley: “As a woman who works at a leading liberal arts college driven by female leadership broadly and by African-American women particularly, I can attest that there is no shortage of women who would be up for the task of director from both within and beyond the Met’s walls.”

“Syrian government troops have retaken Palmyra from Islamic State forces, with help from Russian air support, the Syrian army said in a statement on Thursday.” (ISIS had been driven from the ruined city around this time last year, though the extremist militia retook it in December.) Few [eyewitness] details have emerged about the condition of the ancient site, where [ISIS] has previously wreaked large-scale destruction.”