Scotland is an emerging art region, according to the British television and newspapers this week. Texas is an emerging art region, too, according to this week’s issue of The Economist, which goes as far as to foresee the decline of the pre-eminence of New York and Los Angeles in the States. In Great Britain, the pre-eminence of London is apparently threatened, as well. By extension, art centers everywhere may be swept by the wayside. One cannot but rejoice at such good news, but one also cannot but wonder. Will the center ultimately be everywhere and the periphery nowhere, as Pascal had ventured in a slightly different context? If art and religion were alike, perhaps. For better or for worse, they are not. Artists who matter are still few and far between. They always will be. In their hope to meet their equals, they will always congregate in a few places, perhaps ever fewer. But they will always dream of a world in which the center is everywhere and the periphery nowhere.