ART LURKS: I spent one recent morning prowling around to see if any more supposedly “obscene” art lurks in county buildings.
As you may have heard, Bob Nelson, chief of staff for North County Supervisor Peter Adam, decided that a painting in an exhibit at the county’s Betteravia Government Center in Santa Maria was “obscene” and inappropriate.
So he took it down and stashed it in a closet, okayed by his boss, but not by the County Arts Commission. That was a no-no. Then a fuss began.