The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation is allowing for a deer hunt on the Fire Island National Seashore. They say too many deer, too many problems.

The arc of Eric Haze’s career in art, graphic design, and fashion began in Elaine de Kooning’s cold-water loft near Union Square when he was 10 years old. Almost 50 years later it has come full circle.

There is a photo on the Halsey McKay gallery’s website that shows the studio of Colby Bird, its current downstairs artist exhibitor, in Coxsackie, N.Y. It’s a small upstate town, 25 miles south of Albany.