France is flexing its soft power more than ever, sending numerous loan exhibitions around the world. Asia in particular is a frequent, and lucrative, destination for shows organised by French national museums. Since 2008, the Musée d’Orsay has, for instance, sent abroad at least 1,000 works for shows travelling to 14 cities; the French art critic Didier Rykner says that a key work in its collection, Edouard Manet’s Le Fifre(The piper), 1866, has been loaned abroad at least 15 times since 2001.
Fonte: The Art Newspaper
