Note that the Pompidou Center 's recent survey of Los Angeles art was called '' The Birth of an Artistic Capital '' and that Michael Govan , the new director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art , has declared Los Angeles the new New York , forgetting perhaps that Angelenos have never wished to be New Yorkers and that long before the 1955 birth date pronounced by the Pompidou , Hollywood was producing things as provocative , philosophical and influential as anything given the name of , well , art .