In today’s ArtForum News:
Study Reveals Nation’s Most Art-Saturated Cities

The nonprofit organization Americans for the Arts has released its first national Creative Industries Study, which analyzes in detail the locations of arts-related businesses, institutions, and organizations in all fifty states and the District of Columbia. The study reveals that eleven metropolitan areas have more than ten thousand arts-related businesses, institutions, and organizations (both for-profit and nonprofit) each: New York tops the list with 54,895, with Los Angeles following close behind. But when ranked per capita, the metropolitan area with the highest number of arts-related businesses, institutions, and organizations is Seattle, followed by San Francisco.

Read the full report: Americans for the Arts.

Did you notice that three of the cities mentioned here are on the west coast?

I wonder if a similar study has been done of Canadian cities and how would they compare? Vancouver and Seattle are often compared because of similar climate and size, how about the arts?