Whither Art Thou?

Reading Jed Perl's New Art City, I'm reminded how far New York seems to have come in this latest century from its aspiring heights in the midXXc. Seems that the mercury of inspiration has flowed away from it and toward the North, to Canada, and East across the Atlantic, to the United States of Europe, and perhaps South, to the other North America -- Mexico. Anywhere, now, but NYC.