WHEN the recent Auditor-General’s Report revealed that the National Art Gallery (NAG) had misplaced 206 works as of end 2002, it stirred up a hornet’s nest among shocked art lovers who felt that losing even one painting was unacceptable.
Many were not appeased by other highlights in the AG’s report that showed that NAG had been trying to plug the leak in spite of an overall culture of non-maintenance and apathy that seems to plague government bodies.
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