Kingston, NY

BusinessWeek is the latest to jump on the follow-the-artists bandwagon with their America's Best Places for Artists top 10 list (via CoolTown Studios and Planetizen). The idea that artists are harbingers of cool places is nothing new, and there are a couple of classics on the list (they continue to draw the young and creative). There are a couple of up-and-coming mid-size cities though, and one or two you may not have thought about before.

1. Los Angeles, CA
2. Santa Fe, NM
3. Carson City, NV
4. New York City, NY
5. Kingston, NY
6. Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA
7. Nashville, TN
8. Boulder, CO
9. San Francisco, CA
10. Nassau-Suffolk County, NY