Late in 2013, the National Gallery of Australia (NGA) was the centre of a media storm over an 11th century bronze sculpture statue from a temple in Tamil Nadu that had falsified provenance.
Valued at $5.1 million, the work was purchased in 2008 from the New York art dealer Subhash Kapoor. Shiva as Nataraja, Lord of the Dance became the centre of a major fraud case that involved art museums globally and which continues to unravel today.
